QR Menu Creator

Make a QR Code Menu for FREE

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Make a QR Code Menu for FREE

20 followers

Let your restaurant or bar visitors scan a QR code and see your menu with their phone. Limit the spread of the Coronavirus and speed up your ordering flow. It's completely free.

Launch tags:Design Tools•Branding•Drinking

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eu/acc: European Accelerationism

Maker

To begin 👉 Create your QR menu now ✨ I built a new mini startup this week I found a new idea while 🛣 road tripping in 🇵🇹 Portugal At lots of restaurants/cafes/bars here in Portugal (and in other places in US/EU) you now need to scan a QR code that's on the table to see the menu This is to avoid 🦠 Corona sticking to the menu and infecting you or the staff I'd think there'd be some service doing this but most of the menus I've scanned are a self-hosted page on the restaurant's site Many suck, are slow to load, slow to scroll on mobile etc. Then I thought: - many venues don't even have sites to host menus on - managers/owners are usually not very tech - there's over 1M+ restaurants/cafes/bars in the world - after Corona these QR menus will probably stay because there's benefits to it like dynamically changing menu So I started looking if it already existed, it did but: - the majority are just random QR code creators, not much dedicated to restaurant/cafe menus - most of the menu builders that do exist are really complicated, convoluted or too technical That there's competition means the market is validated, and that the competition isn't that great means I can make something better and more simple, so a few days ago I started coding.

It's now a stand alone QR menu editor and generator featuring live preview on your phone while you edit. It generates a menu like this:

You can then print the QR codes and stick them on your restaurant/cafe table:

The biggest challenge here is reaching restaurant owners, so I'd love your feedback on that. Maybe I'll just go visit them IRL! Hope you like it :) 🚨 Update: I got the first real world user:

Some restaurant from UK: https://qrmn.co/m/COJUhHl8znN06tBk

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6yr ago

@levelsio Well done! How long did it take you from having the idea until publishing on PH? 1 day?

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6yr ago

Izichart

@levelsio Finding restaurant owners in a scalable way is pretty hard, have tried it in the past with biluy.fun when I wanted to create my own database since the google API wasn't good enough for me. However, since this is a free project I'd actually send this to government authorities and they could share this with restaurant owners as a safety measure against Covid. Perhaps try starting off with @WeRRestaurants on twitter.

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6yr ago

eu/acc: European Accelerationism

Maker

@serglotz I started working on it Friday for 2 hours then Sunday to Tuesday for a few hours per day, so I think ~10 hours

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6yr ago

@levelsio Congrats on the launch! To reach restaurant owners at scale, why not partner up with an Organisation that has already done that and has all the relevant contacts, i.e. Groupon, for example

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6yr ago

Descent

@levelsio Hey so this is totally free? Are you planning to monetize this service, and how?

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6yr ago

NeoPOP

Cool! It seems like I can use it to publish readme too https://qrmn.co/m/2bdbxapkMH4PxN...

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6yr ago

Tesla Reader

@levelsio To reach restaurants, why not use cold email? AFAIK, cold emailing businesses is legal in most countries. And the addresses exist 1) in many business databases and 2) on websites and Facebook pages of restaurants. If I had to market to restaurants, I'd start with one country. Collect, say, 100 email addresses for my trial. Email them. Track who clicks through, and who creates a menu. And if it works well enough, I'd think about scaling my email-getting processes. Either buying data or scraping it. Once you've got some coverage, you might be able to run some "Tell a friend" kind of campaign with the owners you already have in the system.

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6yr ago

Pitch Perfect

I swear i've had this idea brewing for 2+ years, Covid was very much needed to accelerate the need of this. You're right, there have been a few attempts, but nobody is getting the simplicity right. 🤷🏻‍♂️ From an MPV perspective you've nailed it. 💅 High 5 to you man, I've already shared this to my mates that own restaurants 🙏🏽 $10 bet says your revenue model will be integration to SMS so the patron get's notified when an order is ready and the restaurant gets notified to place the order 💰

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6yr ago

SlapMac

@garywillmott same here I have a rotting poc sitting in my git 😅

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6yr ago

Pitch Perfect

@tonnoz My pain point was arriving at restaurants and waiting for waiters to get off their but and take my order, sometimes I just want to sit down and order something. 👌

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6yr ago

@levelsio Congrats on the launch, I had a similar idea last week after getting an awful QR menu with a low quality photo of a real menu. Do you plan to monetise the project if it gets enough traction?

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6yr ago

Hey @levelsio 👋 Love what you've created here wth QR Menu Creator. I started http://eatsee.menu/ a few years ago to help solve the same problem. Always great to see people recognising the space and sharing our view of the world. We've also recently built a digital guest registration feature to help restaurants track customers dining in with COVID. We now have over 600 customers around the world using eatsee which is pretty mind blowing. We’re big on community over competition so it’s awesome to have you working in this space too! Let's be friends! 🤗

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6yr ago

SkinSort

Great idea! Would be cool to be able to define multiple menus, and give them a time/day that they display. People could then be shown the relevant menu for the time that they scan the QR code 🎉 With that, owners could only show their specials when they're actually available for order.

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6yr ago

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It's now a stand alone QR menu editor and generator featuring live preview on your phone while you edit. It generates a menu like this:

You can then print the QR codes and stick them on your restaurant/cafe table:

The biggest challenge here is reaching restaurant owners, so I'd love your feedback on that. Maybe I'll just go visit them IRL! Hope you like it :) 🚨 Update: I got the first real world user:

Some restaurant from UK: https://qrmn.co/m/COJUhHl8znN06tBk