Kew Gardens iPhone app developer here, Kew Gardens is a large Garden Park here in London, they have many many species of plants in the park - most have little tags with their scientific names printed on them, wthey just finished printing QR codes to go along side the tags for each plant. Scan the QR code from inside the Kew Gardens app, and we'll take you to the info page for that plant / attraction. (History, endangerment level, buy stuff etc)
Ask HN: Joking aside, does anyone actually use QR codes?
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Re: Ask HN: Joking aside, does anyone actually use QR codes?
#12The Los Angeles Metro bus has QR codes on all the stops that integrates with nextrip to tell you when the next bus is coming at that stop. I've used it before but it's rarely more convenient than just using GPS and having it guess the stop you're standing at.
Re: Ask HN: Joking aside, does anyone actually use QR codes?
#13Kew Gardens iPhone app developer here, Kew Gardens is a large Garden Park here in London, they have many many species of plants in the park - most have little tags with their scientific names printed on them, wthey just finished printing QR codes to go along side the tags for each plant. Scan the QR code from inside the Kew Gardens app, and we'll take you to the info page for that plant / attraction. (History, endang…
Do your customers/users scan it?
Re: Ask HN: Joking aside, does anyone actually use QR codes?
#14I was pretty pissed looking for an apartment in LA where every sign had a QR code for you to get the apartment info. I think by you doing this they suckered you into creating an account and/or paying for it. I have no idea how to scan a QR code. I think I searched once in the android store, downloaded an app and it didn't work. They're basically just glorified short urls which doesn't interest me (gratuitous use of technology much?). The cool application I see is to actually transfer real data, but not too many people do that.
Re: Ask HN: Joking aside, does anyone actually use QR codes?
#15Kew Gardens iPhone app developer here, Kew Gardens is a large Garden Park here in London, they have many many species of plants in the park - most have little tags with their scientific names printed on them, wthey just finished printing QR codes to go along side the tags for each plant. Scan the QR code from inside the Kew Gardens app, and we'll take you to the info page for that plant / attraction. (History, endang…
Do your customers/users scan it?
Yes we record statistics, there's about 10 scans a day
Edit: Dont get me wrong, I think this is the only real relevant use of a QR code - all it's doing it making it so the user doesn't have to type a short URL in.
As an app developer I'm always hearing "let's put a QR code there!" and 95% of the time, it's useless and we shoot down the idea