Opinions needed for Cardd — community driven business card collection.
Opinions needed for Cardd — community driven business card collection.
Hello indie hacker community! It feels so good to finally be making my first post.
A couple of weeks ago, a friend and I started building a fun side project to practice our front and back end skills. We decided on building something fairly simple; a website where you could find a share business cards collected by people all around the world.
We sure did learn a lot from this experience, and we would love to get some feedback from all of you :)
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Nice work! I like the idea. What was your stack? I launched my first app the other week and feels great to have accomplished something.
Thank you, Domt! Congrats on your recent launch, by the way :)
We used Django for the backend and pure HTML/CSS/JS for the front end.
Curious how are you going to protect this from data miners (scrapers), because no one will be willing to put their data here if it's going to end up on some random data pools :)
Great question, Gyvastis.
We didn't really think that part through, believe it or not. Our primary goal was to have a very basic functioning version of the product. We will definitely consider that part, though :)
Well done! It's great to get something working and deployed.
Just an aside, but does anyone know if there exists an app that allows you to snap a photo of a business card, which then crops the cards and perspective transforms it before adding it to a database.
I often find I have piles of business cards from people. If I could throw them on a desk, take a photo with the app, and have it file them for me. That sounds neat. I'd pay a small amount for a nice app that did that.
Oh totally, we thought about going for something similar! But we ended up adding just the basic functionality and launching as is, since we found there to be some complications on the end user.
We will definitely consider adding a more automated functionality, though.
Appreciate the comment :)
Evernote does something like that. You can add via camera, then point your camera at a business card and it will automatically convert it into a contact record for you.
I didn't know it did that.
What I was thinking of is a "virtual card wallet" - so it produces high quality images of your card, not just a contact record.
Then you keep a central DB (with permission) of cards, so that you can offer people the opportunity to upload their card so that quality is 100% in other peoples wallets.
I wonder if this is a route to avoiding the chicken-and-egg problem with virtual business cards.
plaxo?
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We are, actually!
We stumbled upon carrd a couple of days after we started developing the product. It was a bummer, but we decided to just go with it.