[HN Gopher] Show HN: An app to create QR Menus
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Show HN: An app to create QR Menus
Author : attendos
Score : 15 points
Date : 2021-11-22 11:06 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (menu.cards)
(TXT) w3m dump (menu.cards)
| donclark wrote:
| Do you plan to offer pricing in USD? You might also want to
| consider multi-language options for customers. Great idea for an
| app!
| cphoover wrote:
| QR codes are bad for security as they are opaque. How hard would
| it be for an attacker to replace a dining menu with their own
| link to a trojan?
| Diti wrote:
| The French on that website is so broken it's impossible to
| understand. Do you have a link to force the website to display in
| English? Visiting /en redirects to /fr.
| attendos wrote:
| This one should work:
| https://menu.cards/en/?set_language=english
|
| The translation is automatic at the moment and will be
| translated by a native this week :)
|
| Anyway thanks for letting me know!
| chunkyks wrote:
| Every time I follow a qr code pasted on the wall of a restaurant,
| I think "this goes against everything that I, a nominal computer
| professional, knows to be a good idea"
|
| Problem is, it's not a big enough deal for me to turn around and
| walk out, instead my phones download folder is just cluttered
| with pdfs of bad scans of paper menus.
|
| On one hand, when there was a chance coronavirus was spread by
| surfaces, I thought this approach was genius. With the
| appropriate amount of water being under the bridge... Bring back
| the old menus.
| reidjs wrote:
| I think it's a net win for personal hygiene to not have to
| touch a menu that thousands of people have touched before you,
| right before you start eating. Maybe keep the QR codes, but
| have menus on demand for people who prefer them?
| attendos wrote:
| I agree that the PDFs & scans are not the best option. Thats
| why we created a dynamic menu, more like a Shopify store.
| Restaurant owners can update their menu at any time and even
| accept orders direct from the table (paid online if preferred).
| chunkyks wrote:
| Sure. The problem is that I don't know what I'm getting until
| I follow the link. Even when I beep the qr code but before
| following it, 3/4 of the time I get some url shortener.
|
| To be clear, I think your website is a good idea and a good
| movement forward. I'm just a curmudgeonly old guy.
|
| Maybe I would be happier if you did what I sometimes see
| others do: abuse the error correction in qr codes to make the
| one you produce more interesting or unique. So instead of an
| anonymous url injector, it looks like a menu and has your
| logo or brand somewhere clear.
| RhysU wrote:
| Please make it easy for parents to show children the kid's menu.
| QR/phone menus are painful for families because they can't just
| slide a kid's menu to the kids.
| gus_massa wrote:
| The QR is only to go to the top menu, or it's possible to go to
| the submenus with another QR?
| attendos wrote:
| At the moment the built in QR just creates QR images for the
| front of your (store) menu, but we're planning to do this based
| on tables too, right now the customer manually has to fill in
| the table number.
|
| To create different QR's per submenu would be possible already
| if you create a free QR generator and add the submenu URL of
| your menu.cards store. But could be a good add on to add to our
| QR generator! Thanks ;)
| dragonwriter wrote:
| "Menus" not "Menu's"; English doesn't use apostrophes to form
| plurals.
| attendos wrote:
| Noted
| xnx wrote:
| Also "digitize" not "digitalize"
| leros wrote:
| Apps like this took off during the pandemic last year. Most
| restaurants here have QR code menus. Most download a PDF, some
| link to a Google Doc. It all works fine I guess.
|
| Does your solution do anything different? Either way, what's your
| plan for getting customers?
| attendos wrote:
| Yea true most restaurants use a simple QR leading to a PDF from
| their menu. With menu.cards you can create a dynamic menu,
| receive payments, custom domain all the good stuff ;)
|
| Currently most of the customers get acquired via outreach.
| dragonwriter wrote:
| > Yea true most restaurants use a simple QR leading to a PDF
| from their menu
|
| Most of them in my area that didn't stop using QR entirely
| with general reopening, IME, have dynamic menus that track
| tables (the one app I am most familiar with has the table
| number as part of the QR code), order, tab, and payment
| processing, etc.
|
| Even having contextual prompts for users to identify
| potential food allergens relevant to the order is in one app
| I've seen.
| attendos wrote:
| Thats cool! And exactly the direct we're going for,
| creating less friction and an overal better experience.
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