Now in case you didn't know, having a QR code with a lot of information on it means that the QR code itself is more complicated. Think of all the little shapes you see on the QR code. All those are actually coded pieces of information. The more information you have the more shapes you need. The more shapes you have the bigger the QR code needs to be in order to be readable.and how much information you need to cram into it.
. Essentially what I did is simple: each time someone scans a card I make an API call that has Treblle enabled on it 🤩. This actually allowed us to see, in real-time, who was scanning our cards, from where in the world, whose card and using what device. People always ask me forTo round it all off and make it super sexy for the Infobip guys we used their SMS service to send a message with a sharable link to the request on Treblle.
Darko and I were sitting in his office and got to talking about how easy our jobs would be if we were a fintech company like Wise, Revolut or others because we could just give people physical cards which looked cool. I took the opportunity to make a pivoting joke and asked if we were doing NFTs next 🤪. But the idea stuck with me, to be honest.
Everything was coming together nicely but there was a problem. We called a lot of print shops in Zagreb and theywhen we told them we wanted 100 cards in 5 days. One did however say that it might be possible to do. We were so happy they didn't say no, that we sat in the car and drove there directly. We explained the idea, showed the design and they said it's impossible. "Nobody can print a design like that on an NFC card, it's unheard of"...