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Built for the people who work from cafés.

Lattecino is a café discovery and real-world connection app. It helps coffee lovers, remote workers, and digital nomads find great cafés, and the interesting people already inside them.

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About

The mission: turn coffee spaces into connection spaces.

Most café apps stop at ratings and locations. Lattecino goes further: surfacing vibe, workspace quality, WiFi reliability, and the people you're likely to find at any given spot.

The idea came from a decade of working alone in cafés across Bali, Europe, Southeast Asia, and Los Angeles. You're surrounded by interesting people. Everyone stays in their own bubble. Lattecino makes what's already there visible.

Fast facts

Lattecino at a glance.

Founded

November 2025

HQ

Bali / global remote

Status

Live in beta at app.lattecino.com, Bali first (2026)

Platform

Web app first, iOS next

Built for

Remote workers, nomads, solo travelers, café regulars

Vision

The world's largest community for café-based living

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Short · one sentence

Lattecino is a café discovery and connection app that helps remote workers, digital nomads, and solo travelers find great cafés, and the people already inside them.

Long · three sentences

Lattecino merges café discovery with real-world human connection. The app surfaces vibe, workspace quality, real WiFi speeds, and the people checked in at each café, always same-café only and privacy-first, so meeting someone feels natural rather than engineered. Launching in Bali in 2026, Lattecino is building a more connected world, one coffee at a time.

Core features

What makes it different.

Café discovery built on honest data. Real WiFi speed tests run by real people, AC quality, laptop-friendliness, and coffee ratings. The four essentials stay free forever.

Who's Here. Check in and see the people at your café right now, and what they're open to. Visible only at the same café, never "nearby", and only when you choose to be.

Express Interest with invisible declines. Mutual opt-in only. Nobody is ever notified they were passed on. A decline, a block, and a non-response all look identical.

Privacy-first by design. No background location tracking, no "seen" receipts, no public location history, no follower graph. Check-ins are deliberate and expire after three hours.

Trusted reviews. Written by people who were verifiably there.

A growing map of connection-ready cafés, starting with Bali.

Michael Hensel, founder of Lattecino, working from a Bali café
"Coffee brings us to the same place. Lattecino helps us actually meet."
Michael Hensel, Founder of Lattecino · World Coffee Championship award winner · writing from a café in Bali

Market context

"As reported in Fortune (March 2026), loneliness costs the U.S. economy $406 billion annually and has given rise to a new IRL economy." Lattecino is the spontaneous, proximity-first answer within that economy.

Listen

The App Fixing Coffee Shop Isolation

A short audio feature on why Lattecino exists and how it works.

Brand assets

Logos, colors and type.

Logos

The copper bean mark and the Lattecino wordmark. Please keep clear space around both and don't recolor them.

Colors & typography

Sage and gold over espresso, in light and dark. Type is Fraunces for display and Poppins for body.

#0C0F0C espresso
#8FAF87 sage
#D9B36A gold
#4D7A52 deep green
#A97F2F antique gold
#F7F8F4 crema

Press contact

Screenshots, founder photos, interviews: one email away.

We answer press requests personally, usually within a day.