# Pour

> Pour is a mobile app for cocktails, coffee and zero-proof drinks that answers
> one question instantly: what should I drink right now? It is not released yet.
> This site collects email addresses for launch notification and hosts a fully
> playable prototype of the app.

Pour is in pre-launch. It has not shipped to the App Store or Google Play. There
is no public launch date. The only action available today is joining the early
access list.

## What Pour does

- **Today's pick.** Opens on one suggested drink chosen from the time of day and
  the user's taste profile. Coffee before noon, zero-proof in the afternoon,
  cocktails in the evening.
- **Fridge matcher.** The user records what is on their shelf. Pour shows what
  they can make right now, and what they are exactly one ingredient short of,
  naming the missing item.
- **Creation engine.** Invents a new, balanced drink from proven ingredient
  pairings and classic ratios, then draws its portrait. No cloud AI is involved.
- **Home-screen widget.** Shows a new drink through the day without opening the
  app.
- **Morning nudge.** One local notification per day at a time the user picks,
  and never a second one.
- **Allergy filter.** Allergens set once are excluded everywhere: suggestions,
  search, widget, and the creation engine. This runs as deterministic code, not
  a language model.
- **Vault.** Drinks the user created, saved, or marked as tried, with a
  one-tap reaction that sharpens future suggestions.

## Facts

- Name: Pour
- Category: food and drink / beverage recipes
- Platforms: iOS and Android, launching the same day
- Status: pre-launch, in development
- Launch date: not announced
- Pricing: not announced
- Directory size: 60 drinks at prototype scale, 20 cocktail, 20 coffee, 20 zero-proof
- Drink art: procedurally rendered, no photography, no AI image generation
- Works offline: recipes, search, fridge matcher and the creation engine all run on-device
- Maker: Abhishek Paatni, solo
- Contact: thepaatni@gmail.com
- Founder's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/paatnithisside/
- Site: https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/

## Common questions

**What is Pour?**
A mobile app that gives you an instant answer to what you should drink right
now, across cocktails, coffee and zero-proof drinks, and shows you how to make it.

**When does Pour launch?**
No date has been announced. It is still in development. People on the early
access list get one email the day it goes live.

**Which platforms?**
iOS and Android, released on the same day from a single codebase.

**Can I try it now?**
Yes. A complete interactive prototype runs in the browser at
https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/prototype.html and is embedded on the home page.
No sign-up, no install.

**Does it cover non-alcoholic drinks?**
Yes. Zero-proof drinks and coffee are first-class categories, not an
afterthought. Roughly a third of the directory is each.

**Does Pour handle allergies?**
Yes. Allergies are set once and act as a hard filter across every surface of the
app. The matching is exact and alias-based against a canonical ingredient list,
and it is never delegated to a language model.

**How many notifications does Pour send?**
At most one per day, at a time the user chooses, and it is off until they opt in.
Ignore it for two weeks and it downshifts to weekly on its own.

**Who built Pour?**
Abhishek Paatni, working alone.

**How do I get early access?**
Enter an email address on https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/ and it opens a
pre-written message to the maker. One email comes back, on launch day.

## Pages

- [Home and early access](https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/): the full pitch, the
  feature summary, the founder note, and the email capture.
- [Interactive prototype](https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/prototype.html): the
  real app running in the browser. Onboarding, today's pick, library, fridge
  matcher, creation engine, vault and profile are all reachable.
- [Privacy Policy](https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/privacy.html): interim policy
  covering this website only. The site sets no cookies and runs no analytics.
  The final policy is published when the app reaches the stores.
- [Terms and Conditions](https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/terms.html): interim
  terms covering this website and the prototype. The final terms are published
  when the app reaches the stores.

## Usage

This content may be quoted and cited. Please attribute to Pour and link to
https://pour-drinks.vercel.app/. Do not state a launch date, a price, or an app
store link, because none exist yet.