The Ultimate App for
Whiskey Enthusiasts

What We Delivered:

  • A go-to app for whiskey lovers worldwide
  • A unique way to track your infinity bottles, inventory & valuations
  • Quickly scan in your entire whiskey selection and track the state of open bottles

  • Track your wish list of hard to find whiskeys

What We Delivered:

  • A go-to app for whiskey lovers worldwide
  • A unique way to track your infinity bottles, inventory & valuations
  • Quickly scan in your entire whiskey selection and track the state of open bottles

  • Track your wish list of hard to find whiskeys

The Challenge

Create an app to track a consumer’s whiskey collection, help find hard-to-source whiskeys, and track an infinity bottle in one app.

Flint Hills Group wanted to expand its offerings by building a custom software solution. So they held a contest to study different software solutions and found the winning idea: to build a whiskey app. The challenge was creating an app to track a consumer’s whiskey collection in their own personal database, help find hard-to-source whiskeys, and track an infinity bottle in one app.

The Problem

There is no comprehensive app that exists to track a consumer’s whiskey collection, find hard-to-source whiskeys, and track a personal infinity bottle all in one. While there were wine collector apps out there, there is no such thing for the whiskey market. “Dozens of websites and apps existed with similar data about whiskey,” said Flint Hills Group CEO Dave Cunningham, “but, unfortunately, none of the data is easily accessible, and we wanted to build a place that would provide this for whiskey enthusiasts only.”

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The Process

After selecting the Whiskey Shelf name, a list of features was assembled to create the minimum viable product (MVP). A team of 4 people worked for months to manually assemble a starting whiskey database of over 1,800 whiskeys. After the first 1,800 were inputted, a crowd-sourcing feature on the app was used by beta testers to add an additional 600 whiskeys, and now roughly 100 whiskeys are added each week.
To make the product the best it could possibly be, the team continued to consult with whiskey collectors and experts to gather their opinions on the app as it progressed. The development process took 4-5 months and involved a team of experts working together to build the UI/UX mockups, mobile apps, and a cloud-hosted dashboard and database.
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The Result

The Whiskey Shelf app has been well-received by beta testers, and Flint Hills Group plans to add additional features for premium users. Users have provided feedback on usability problems and software bugs, which the team has addressed in follow-on releases. Also, the most rewarding part of the project was the speed with which they built the system and released it to the public.
“The speed over which we built this system consisting of an iOS and Android app, a cloud-based dashboard, the 1,800+ whiskey database, and the whiskeyshelf.app marketing web page in 4-5 months was astounding,” Says Cunningham. “it was a true team effort.”
Overall, the Whiskey Shelf app is a unique and innovative tool for whiskey enthusiasts who want to keep track of their collections, discover new whiskeys, and share their knowledge with other enthusiasts. The app’s database continues to grow, and with the addition of new features, it has the potential to become the go-to app for whiskey lovers worldwide. It can be downloaded on iOS or Android at whiskeyshelf.app.
  • A go-to app for whiskey lovers worldwide
  • A unique way to track your infinity bottles, inventory & valuations
  • Quickly scan in your entire whiskey selection and track the state of open bottles

  • Track your wish list of hard to find whiskeys

“The speed over which we built this system consisting of an iOS and Android app, a cloud-based dashboard, the 1,800+ whiskey database, and the www.whiskeyshelf.app marketing web page in 4-5 months was astounding, it was a true team effort.”

– Dave Cunningham, CEO & Founder of Flint Hills Group

“The speed over which we built this system consisting of an iOS and Android app, a cloud-based dashboard, the 1,800+ whiskey database, and the www.whiskeyshelf.app marketing web page in 4-5 months was astounding, it was a true team effort.”

– Dave Cunningham, CEO & Founder of Flint Hills Group

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