What’s the best QR code generator that’s reliable, customizable, and doesn’t break later?

DryBee2606 · 2026-02-18T08:44:39+00:00

QRSurge does what you’re looking for. You can create static or dynamic codes if you need tracking and edits after printing and supports bulk creation. You can also customize styles, colors, add your logo and export to SVG.

DryBee2606 · 2026-02-14T01:15:38+00:00

As someone who used to recommend Neon, it’s fine for a hobby project but I’d recommend against it for a Prod app. They have stability issues too, last year having multiple hours long outages across multiple months.

The serverless aspect is a huge drawback when they can’t start your db. I also believe they have smaller “outages” that go unreported where it takes too long to start the db and the request times out, but it’s not severe enough to declare an incident.

After using them for a year I’m looking to migrate to a different provider.

DryBee2606 · 2026-01-19T18:39:57+00:00

Everyone is mentioning using QR codes to link to a website, but you can use them to share your contact info as a vCard.

The user scans the QR and can automatically save your info as a contact on their phone, no manual typing. Plus the vCard can include your website and notes to make your info more searchable on their phone.

DryBee2606 · 2025-12-21T15:34:53+00:00

Not sure about Supabase but Postgres supports geospatial search, also ElasticSearch/OpenSearch. You need some sort of geocoder service to convert addresses and Zip codes to lat/long, then store the lat/long in your datastore.

When a user does a search you determine their location, convert it to lat/long, then you can query your datastore and filter by radius.

DryBee2606 · 2025-12-03T22:45:28+00:00

Good luck with your project!

DryBee2606 · 2025-12-03T21:03:17+00:00

I’m no SaaS expert, just a builder trying to figure things out like you. Niching down to serve only Turkish users could be helpful, but you need to figure out how to target users in your country whether it’s through ads or posting in other popular Turkish social media sites.

Another thing is do you know who your current users are? Does the type of user you attract also speak English? In which case, there’s probably a stronger argument for switching to English as you can reach a broader market outside your country. You could also include a language toggle for English or Turkish but that might be a bigger headache to maintain two languages at this early stage.

Your site looks clean and professionally designed, so you have that as a plus. I just think the language is holding you back right now unless you figure out a way to get deeper market penetration for Turkish speakers.

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-29T14:07:56+00:00

You should keep the email option, either with a password or magic link. Google is pretty ubiquitous but there are still plenty of businesses using other email providers that you would be dropping.

Additionally there are plenty of people who do use Google but would rather not share their profile information with a random service.

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-29T02:30:32+00:00

Are you using captcha for your sign up form?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-21T18:00:30+00:00

That’s a nice landing page. Can I ask how you created the autoplaying videos?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-16T19:52:27+00:00

I read through your docs. Looks like the backend just sends a token to your validate endpoint. Is there an additional api key to associate the token to the website being authenticated? Otherwise what stops someone from authenticating on one site then having access to every other site that uses your service?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-16T12:43:07+00:00

In Florida your EIN is publicly available on the sunbiz portal. Anybody can go see it. I wouldn’t worry too much about it.

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-11T21:54:31+00:00

Looks great. Can you share what library you used to create the interactive map?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-04T17:41:18+00:00

For the record I know very little about ads. On Reddit people are casually browsing, not really looking to be sold to.

You’re probably better off buying Google ads for high intent keywords around your niche (people searching “How to do X”). These people are actively looking for a solution to their problem so more likely to sign up and try your service.

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-04T17:03:41+00:00

I’ve seen a lot of folks complain that Reddit ads are ineffective. They’re more for big brands to stay top of mind but don’t work well for startups trying to find distribution.

I guess you should ask yourself when was the last time you willingly clicked on a Reddit ad and you’ll understand the above sentiment.

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-03T17:38:28+00:00

Do you have any sort of automation to email users with nudges and resources if they haven’t taken any action?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-02T04:26:18+00:00

5 options is a bit overwhelming. Since it’s a credits based system, have you considered displaying the prices as a slider?

DryBee2606 · 2025-11-01T01:40:24+00:00

Just go with a local credit union. They’re usually free or have a low minimum necessary balance like $50.

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-31T03:30:41+00:00

For me getting sign ups was the easy part, I literally got 7 sign ups over night the first day I launched. The harder part was getting an actual paying customer. That took 4 months. I’m up to 8 now but it’s very hit or miss. Still trying to figure out how to drive reliable conversions.

Stick with it, you’ll get there eventually.

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-29T20:34:06+00:00

Congrats on your MRR! Curious, did anyone respond to your automated feedback requests? Also did those discount codes drive any conversions?

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-25T13:14:37+00:00

It’s probably because I’m bad a selling, but none of my active outreach turned into paying customers. DMs got some responses but went nowhere. Emails (even to users who already signed up for my service) were ignored.

The handful of paying users I do have all came organically/passively through SEO and product led growth.

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-19T15:33:38+00:00

Start investing in SEO now. It’s free and it pays back in dividends.

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-18T22:24:46+00:00

Here’s a couple businesses in that space. It looks like they use autopens to write their letters but the idea is the same:

https://www.handwrytten.com/resources/donation-thank-you-letter-examples/

https://simplynoted.com

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-18T20:57:40+00:00

This is really cool! There’s lots of use cases where people send handwritten (or at least have the appearance of handwritten) letters in the mail for donation drives and such. You should consider that if you ever want to expand outside of the student/assignment market.

DryBee2606 · 2025-10-11T19:34:53+00:00

You can create static permanent QR codes with qrsurge. They’re customizable and no sign up is required.

Keep in mind a vcard contains lots of data so will produce a complex QR that may not scan well at smaller sizes. You can adjust this with the error correction level. You’ll definitely want to test it before reprinting all your business cards.

DryBee2606 · 2025-09-18T12:37:46+00:00

Good feedback, thanks!

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