LOL why not just ... carry a photo of your actual vaccination record on your phone?
Taking a photo of it is even the first step in getting one of these -- you save two steps and ten bucks!
Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
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Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#12Hey HN! My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP. We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size…
yea don’t go down this path.
Well, it is a clearly defined service / product, with a clearly defined (and not all that expensive) price, so not all that bad, now is it?
Feels the hostility here is a bit overblown.
Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#13I'm astonished by the lack of security of these cards. In Europe we have a digital COVID certificate which consist of a QR Code, easily verifiable and unfalsifiable.
Anyone vaccinated can download a PDF version of this certificate with its social security number in France.
I understand better why US citizen have trouble to travel in Europe since there is actually no proof that one is really vaccinated.
Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#14I can make my own plastic ID card through various services online.
What are you bringing to the table that I couldn’t easily do myself?
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#15don't need more plastic
Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#16Hey HN! My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP. We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size…
Why didn't you start with HIV-status cards? That seems to be less sensitive right now.
Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#17LOL why not just ... carry a photo of your actual vaccination record on your phone?
Taking a photo of it is even the first step in getting one of these -- you save two steps and ten bucks!
I wonder, BTW, if they just print your photo (hopefully after straightening and sizing it)? Then the quality is entirely dependent on your camera, lighting, etc -- could be rather shitty. Or if (hopefully) they OCR any text and other data (QC?) and insert it into a print-quality template; then only your mugshot and signature, if it holds any of those, depend on your photo.
Re: Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
#18Nah I’d want this from the government not a third party.