I’ve started a new thing, so in the spirit of building in public, here it is: QRpage.
The one-line version: it’s a QR code with a real webpage behind it.
The itch
I kept noticing a particular kind of search. People type “QR code car”, “QR code museum”, “QR code wedding” into Google. They think they want a QR generator. What they actually want is for some physical thing — a car they’re selling, a plaque in a garden, a jar of honey at a farm shop — to say more when someone scans it.
And here’s the gap: a QR code on its own is useless. It’s just an address. It has to point somewhere. So these people go to a free generator, get a code that opens a long ugly link or nothing at all, and give up. They needed two things — a little webpage and the code that opens it — and nobody handed them both.
That’s the whole product. You fill in a few fields, a small mini website builds itself as you type, and out comes a print-ready poster with the QR code already on it. No account, no app. There’s a car-for-sale template, a tour/heritage-plaque one, a generic one, with more to come.
Why this one
A few reasons it scratched the right itch for me:
- It’s a clear job-to-be-done. People are already searching for it with intent. I’m not inventing demand, I’m meeting it.
- The artifact is the product. What the user actually wants is the printed thing in their hand. The editor is just plumbing that should disappear. I find that a nice constraint to design against.
- It’s bilingual from day one. German-primary, English-secondary, path-based (
/de/,/en/). The German long-tail is much less contested than the English one, which suits a bootstrapper with no ad budget.
Where it’s at
Early. The publish-and-print loop works, the first templates are live, and I’m grinding through the SEO and landing-page work now. It’s free to use — I’ll figure out a small paid upsell (removing the footer, that kind of thing) once there’s traffic worth charging against.
If you’ve got a physical thing that could use a webpage behind it — a car, a market stall, an event, a plaque on a tree — have a play with it at qrpage.co and tell me what breaks. That’s the most useful thing you can do for an early project.
More soon.
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