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Show HN: An app to create QR Menus
- gus_massa 5y agoThe QR is only to go to the top menu, or it's possible to go to the submenus with another QR?
- attendos 5y agoAt 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 ;)
- leros 5y agoApps 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 5y agoYea 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 5y ago> 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 5y agoThats cool! And exactly the direct we're going for, creating less friction and an overal better experience.
- Diti 5y agoThe 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 5y agoThis one should work: https://menu.cards/en/?set_language=english 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 5y agoEvery 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.
- attendos 5y agoI 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 5y agoSure. 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.
- attendos 5y agoAah yea i think understand, we have a pretty nice custom QR builder where you can customize the colors, add tekst, or a logo :) We also don't use URL shorteners people can just choose a custom slug eg menu.cards/s/[slug] Probably most more simple systems use url shorteners so they can update the URl it's revering to, since you sometimes need to update the menu. With Menu.Cards you can just update you menu dynamically whenever. Btw if you want to see a demo of what a menu could look like: menu.cards/s/demo
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- dragonwriter 5y ago“Menus” not “Menu’s”; English doesn't use apostrophes to form plurals.
- RhysU 5y agoPlease 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.
- donclark 5y agoDo you plan to offer pricing in USD? You might also want to consider multi-language options for customers. Great idea for an app!
- attendos 5y agoOur own pricing at the moment is just in EUR but you can offer you customers all currencies that Stripe offers. Yes, we're working on a multi-language menu :) For now it's just possible with creating multiple menus in different languages...
- cphoover 5y agoQR 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?
- attendos 5y agoNot sure, but something to look in to i guess ;)
- gendocu 5y agoLooks very nice ;) fingers crossed
- attendos 5y agoThanks a lot!