Humidor Connect

The Problem

In-store guidance is inconsistent, so customers buy on the label and retailers lose the sell-through. Humidor Connect scores cigars against a stated palate and swipe history, then explains every match in plain language — and the same ranking can be run against one lounge's inventory so the answer is something a customer can actually walk out with.

The Solution

A mobile-first discovery platform that connects a smoker's taste to the selection actually around them. Swipe through blends, get recommendations filtered to what a specific lounge carries, track a digital humidor, and check in to see what everyone else is on.

Features

• Deterministic scoring engine — no model, no inference — weighing stated preferences, swipe history, and flavor notes shared with past likes
• Every recommendation carries a “Why this matches” explanation and a drink pairing
• Run the same ranking against a single lounge's inventory, so results are things in stock
• Swipe discovery that learns from every like and pass
• Digital humidor and a live taste profile built from swipe behavior
• 21 lounges across Dallas–Fort Worth, Atlanta, Houston, and Indianapolis, with hours, amenities, events, and priced inventory
• Lounge check-ins with an activity feed
• Age gate that remembers a pass per device but deliberately never stores a refusal, so a mistyped year cannot lock someone out
• Schema-stamped localStorage wrapper that survives private browsing, exhausted quota, and blocked site data without white-screening
• Collections stored as ids and rehydrated from the catalog, so a saved humidor never carries stale blend data

Tech Stack