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Show HN: QR Builder

10 pointsby santafenabout 1 year ago
A new take on creating QR Codes with a modern interface.

9 comments

ragebolabout 1 year ago
Seeing this, I have to rant for a bit about paying for QR codes. Some not-tech friends hosted a pub quiz some time ago, paper with QR codes on each table with a URL that in the end points to an e-mail address for ordering drinks. Worked like a charm.<p>But halfway the evening, the &#x27;QR code stopped working&#x27;. The paper didn&#x27;t degrade or the ink or whatever, no, the redirect went out of some limit. That pissed me off, because a QR code doesn&#x27;t expire, it still pointed to the same URL but that now wanted some money. The generator they used funneled everything through them so they could do this.<p>Told them to ask me next time, so I can just embed `mailto:beer@their-event.nl` into a QR code which will never stop working.
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divanabout 1 year ago
There are hundreds of similar QR code builders, mostly for web (like this one, despite being labeled &quot;cross-platform&quot;). All equally crappy, as they try to monetize such a simple and widespread encoding to the unaware audience. Some of them put their own redirect links into encoded QR codes (which may stop working), and some charge for &quot;advanced&quot; features.<p>&quot;Pay 200$&#x2F;year and generate QR codes on up to 5 devices&quot;, really?<p>I don&#x27;t mind competition, but this sort of &quot;startups&quot; always feels like cheating.
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taldoabout 1 year ago
How is this not just a thin, expensive wrapper around <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;react-qrcode-logo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.npmjs.com&#x2F;package&#x2F;react-qrcode-logo</a>?
isawczukabout 1 year ago
I&#x27;d love to understand business case behind this, from my perspective it&#x27;s persuing market oversaturated with existing solutions, but could be wrong
Alohaabout 1 year ago
I use a tool called Kuar for MacOS, which just allows me to encode whatever I like in it. I need to find a windows equivalent at some point though.
mooredsabout 1 year ago
Having just struggled with bitly&#x27;s QR code generator (kept freezing up in Firefox for some reason), I look forward to giving this a try.
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corn13read2about 1 year ago
I have so many things to say that would possibly help this but it scares me to enable this kind of gouging for zero innovation
gorkishabout 1 year ago
This is valueless trash. Everyone here knows it; the author knows it.<p>Products that try to tax ignorance have no place.<p>&quot;Enterprise plan&quot;? Fuck right off.
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jacknewsabout 1 year ago
What is the &#x27;calibre&#x27; (ebook manager) for qr codes? There must be a local app that can generate all the different qr codes, with custom redundancy levels, etc, etc, and is known as <i>the</i> comprehensive solution?<p>This looks like just another crappy web QR generator - it might make money if the SEO is good, or it&#x27;s all dark patterns, but otherwise probably not.