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Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by replicatorblog »

chaosmachine wrote: post #2

That's some nice web design. Lots of attention to detail. Cool product idea, too. Reminds me of Barcode Battler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_Battler

yeah, gorgeous design, really awesome name, and the product seems cool, though not sure how useful at this point? The number of things you would want to put big vinyl stickers on seems kind of small, but if this is the first step it is very exciting. Being able to track the provenance of an object unobtrusively (via RFID?) would be really neat.

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by cracki »

i think the concept is kinda weak. i'd use a QR code with a link to a wiki page, if that's what this is.

so they're proposing a wiki page for each unique bar code... that smells like wikipedia, but i don't see "business value" in it.

that site looks like they're trying to market something, which means that they're trying to make money with this. i can't imagine how that's supposed to work.

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by megamark16 »

replicatorblog wrote: post #3
chaosmachine wrote: post #2

That's some nice web design. Lots of attention to detail. Cool product idea, too. Reminds me of Barcode Battler: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode_Battler

yeah, gorgeous design, really awesome name, and the product seems cool, though not sure how useful at this point? The number of things you would want to put big vinyl stickers on seems kind of small, but if this is the first step it is very exciting. Being able to track the provenance of an object unobtrusively (via RFID?) would be really neat.

Well, from a business perspective, if you're a company with equipment (medical, electronics, tools, etc) you could have employee "check out" equipment with their phones. If you're a company that works with documents (engineering, legal, what have you) you could attach barcodes to physical copies (shoot, you could overlay them on the digital ones to so they print off with the doc itself) and use them to easily pull up a record of the document. These are just a few uses that come to mind, but basically anywhere that you need to identify something or someone, you could use this as a starting point and build out from there.

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by sunkencity »

What a greap app! Fantastic design of the homepage as well.

Interesting that they got that through the appstore. Didn't think they allowed barcode scanning apps, but maybe that was just amazon that didn't allow such apps. I think it's a good idea to build this app around fun, and then add the business aspects later.

I would not be surprised though if this app is pulled from the appstore because of some bogus claim and that apple launches a similar feature with a selected partner, but more shopping oriented.

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by wesley »

The examples are a bit laughable..

"Attach your resume to your business card" - You could just add a web link instead and everyone would understand instead of limiting yourself to a very specific subset of users that know what to do with the barcode. (Same with "attach photos of what you're selling to a flyer")

Plus, is there any type of control on these barcodes? Can I claim a barcode and not allow anyone to add anything else? That would be quite important if you're going to put it on a business card..

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by mscantland »

The main use-case I see for this is physical objects which already have a barcode. If you were going to go to the trouble of barcoding something yourself (e.g., business card), you'd be better off using a URL, where you'd be able to control what gets associated with the barcode, to say nothing of avoiding the chicken-egg issues with something like this.

Re: StickyBits: Add a bar code based history to any physical object

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Post by rodyancy »

megamark16 wrote: post #6
replicatorblog wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yeah, gorgeous design, really awesome name, and the product seems cool, though not sure how useful at this point? The number of things you would want to put big vinyl stickers on seems kind of small, but if this is the first step it is very exciting. Being able to track the provenance of an object unobtrusively (via RFID?) would be really neat.

Well, from a business perspective, if you're a company with equipment (medical, electronics, tools, etc) you could have employee "check out" equipment with their phones. If you're a company that works with documents (engineering, legal, what have you) you could attach barcodes to physical copies (shoot, you could overlay them on the digital ones to so they print off with the doc itself) and use them to easily pull up…

To target this use-case they would need to limit the number of wide-eyed, open mouthed monkeys they use on their sales page.
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