Roadmap and Changelog
See what's newly added, changed, fixed, improved or updated.
Planned features and features in progress may appear here too.
Overhaul of the flavors and notes
Now that I've added substantially enough teas for now, I want to turn my attention to another important aspect that I feel it lacking. Notes are meant to help users find their teas and make it easier for them to discover teas that match their preferences. The current system is very limited and constrained to only a few categories that were decided when the project was much smaller. I'll be working on improving that next.
Large tea catalog expansion
This release is based on the 2.3 roadmap and focuses on shipping a large wave of new teas while continuing data quality improvements.
We're still pushing toward the broader 20K tea coverage goal, and this update ships a major batch of new teas while cleaning up profile data.
It also includes a fix for stale search behavior so each new query now refreshes and returns the correct result set.
- Major tea catalog expansion with a large new batch of teas now added to the platform.
- Broader coverage across tea profiles to keep building toward the 20K tea target.
New flavors explore page
I wanted to wait until I refactored the notes system to make it more flexible and powerful
But since it's taking longer than I expected, I decided to release the flavors explore page first.Eventually this will be able to support hundreds of flavors and be more of a dynamic tagging system than a strict categorical label like it is now.
Check it out at the flavors explore page.
New compare teas page
I always liked the Apple online store compare product feature.
You can now compare up to three teas side by side in a more visual, Apple-inspired layout. Search with autocomplete, add teas to the comparison, and quickly scan category, origin, flavour notes, brewing guidance, caffeine, community ratings, and more in long-form product cards.
Check it out at the compare page.
New profile settings
On release there were a few things I neglected that I'm adding now. Just click your profile picture in the top right corner and select "Settings".
- You can now link your account to a Google account. Signing in with email and password or Google should take you to the same account assuming you used your gmail address for both.
- You can toggle notification settings in the settings page now too.
- You can export your data in JSON format as a downloadable zip file now.
- You can update (or add, if you originally signed in with Google) your password now.
User profiles, reviews, sessions, and cupboards
It's not April Fools, it's the feature we've all been waiting for! User profiles are now live. You can create an account and start using any of the new features. Reviews and sessions are meant to differentiate in several ways
Reviews are for:
- Sharing your thoughts and experiences with teas you've tried; reviews are always public.
- Being your canonical opinion about the tea product in question; you can only leave one review per tea product (but update that review whenever you like).
Sessions are for:
- Documenting your personal drinking habits and experience; you can control visibility and make sessions public or private as you please.
- Experimenting with different tea combinations and brewing methods; you can create as many sessions for a single tea as you'd like.
Now you can:
- Complete an onboarding experience to help us recommend you some teas you might like.
- Keep up to date about recent activity on platform.
- Propose edits to tea profiles.
- Start tea journaling/documenting your tea sessions.
- Write reviews of your favorite teas.
- Add teas to a shelf in your cupboard.
- New user profiles. You can create an account by signing up.
- New user profile tea analytics. Once you start adding sessions, shelves, and reviews you can see your tea consumption stats and scope the data to any of those features.
- New cupboard and shelves feature; what we call "saving" teas. You can create any number of shelves in your cupboard and save teas to them.
- New review sections in tea profiles, user profiles, and brand profiles.
- New pantry feature that lets you create shelves and save teas to them.
Discover pages
One of my favorites features on Fragrantica is their many ways to browse and discover fragrances. Time to bring it to teas.
World explorer: lets you spin the globe, pick a country, and browse teas connected to that origin.
Tea finder: helps you branch out from what you already like with recommendations based on style, ingredients, caffeine level, and taste balance.
- New tea world explorer feature, which lets you browse teas by country of origin.
- New tea finder feature, which tries to find teas based on your current preferences.
Brew helper and timer
Set brewing parameters directly from the brand recommended guidelines or find the configuration for your perfect custom brew.
The Brew Helper can:
- Recommend a brew setup for the tea you’re making, including temperature, leaf amount, water, and steep times.
- Guide you through infusions with a live timer and quick adjustments as you brew.
- Help you switch between styles like western, gongfu, Japanese, grandpa, cold brew, or custom.
- Let you fine-tune the brew profile to make it stronger, lighter, hotter, cooler, shorter, or longer.
- Save sessions so you can remember what worked and improve the next session.
- The new brew helper feature, with tunable settings, session integration, and brew parameters directly from the brand.
- A simple zen mode timer for unfussy sessions.
- Still all mobile friendly!
We have a logo now!
Courtesy of Ramy, we went through a few different iterations before landing on one we were happy with 
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Tea profile similar teas tab
I'm looking to start building a robust tea recommendation engine.
Similarity is based on tea category/type, notes, format, caffeine content, ingredients, origin, and more (roughly in that order of priority).
Aside from improving the logic directly, this is something that should get better as the database grows. The more teas are added, the more accurate the recommendations will become.
Brand profile catalog browsing tab
You can now browse a single brand's tea catalog in the brand profile.
Filters work exactly the same as they do on the main tea search page. This change comes with minor improvements to the brand profile's UI.
Mobile friendly tea search page
Pretty high priority since most platform traffic seems to come from Chrome Mobile.
The filters are hidden in a drawer that slides up from the bottom of the screen when the filters button is tapped.
Tea browsing
Search, sort, filter, and basic discovery and exploration features.
Finally! The feature we've all been waiting for!.
This is a major milestone for us, but is really just the beginning of several iterations and improvements. We'd also like to support more advanced browsing features, like a tea atlas, browse by flavor, etc. We'll also likely to build a dedicated search feature for each brand.
At some point this will likely integrate more with our landing page, but for now, all search related features are in the Search page.
- 600+ new teas from Upton and Republic of Tea!
- New tea browsing page and experience.
- New search, sort, and filter features.
- New food pairing microtip in tea profile pages.
- New country of origin stats in brand profiles.
Brand Profiles
Brand profiles to accompany the tea profiles
Tea products all belong to a brand, so it's only natural we support profiles around individual tea companies. Each company's profile lists basic information about the company, as well as the tea products they sell that we have on platform.
It's important to note that tea products may exist on platform without an associate grower/producer/company profile. This may be because we don't have that company's profile yet, the company no longer exists, the company rebranded, or any other reasons. Tea products exist independent of companies on platform. That said, there have yet to be any teas on the platform without a brand.
Eventually we aim to support physical locations, as well as differentiate between brands, vendors, and producers.
- 500+ new teas from Rishi and What Cha!
- Tea company profile pages, complete with tea type breakdown, brand specific flavor wheel, AI generated microfact, and featured teas section.
- New commerce cards in tea profiles with links to official brand online stores and Amazon.
- All mobile friendly as usual!
FAQ page
Answering some questions people may ask (and have asked).
You can have a look here.
Soft Launch
The creation of individual tea product profiles.
After making it my new year's resolution to finally build this thing I got started with the goal of getting a v1 ready and demoable before the annual Toronto Tea Festival. I went last year and was inspired by all the vendors and the community. Tea has been second fiddle to Coffee for too long. It's time for the second most consumed beverage in the world (after water) to take its rightful place.
v1 centers around the creation of individual tea product profiles. These will be the atomic units of content on this website. I intentionally avoided any features that involve any sort of user account or sign up, and aim to avoid implementing such features until the tea profiles are robust and well received. I want to do one thing really well at a time.
- 1100+ teas from TWG, Harney and Sons, and DAVIDsTEA
- Tea product pages, complete with images, flavor profiles, about cards, brewing stats, simple share center, and basic producer/company information.
- A global imperial/metric unit of measurement toggle.
- A landing page with basic explore teas sections.
- All mobile friendly!