Show HN: Beautiful QR Codes
scanwayy.comThe concept itself has been done a few times before. This Reddit thread has an explanation on how you can generate these yourself: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/18aoqs0/co...
The good old https://huggingface.co/monster-labs/control_v1p_sd15_qrcode_... model and its predecessors also help.
The technique works for other black-and-white masks too: https://reticulated.net/dailyai/ai-generated-qr-codes-with-s...
The diffusion codes all have a distinctive style where the qr code "melts" into the picture. I wanted to have more dedicated codes.
Not to disparage, but I wrote:
"Using the attached image as a stencil/background - please generate a QR code for https://XXX"
into ChatGPT and got something valid that looks similar in style to your offering.
I think the age of trying to wrap a highly focused AI task in a SaaS has come and gone.
I don't disagree, but remember the lesson of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 -- historically, people have been willing to pay for convenience.
I would argue that my proposed flow is far more convenient. I don’t have to sign up, enter payment details and I can interface in plain English.
Many people are not as skilled as you. No pun intended.
Those dropbox guys might have been onto something
With simple prompting it works sometimes but less reliably. I implemented a healing and strengthening algorithm which can improve codes that don't scan quickly.
Jokes on you, this is the exact prompt OP uses in the BE lol
If you want to understand it better: https://research.swtch.com/qart [2012]
Nice! Simple yet elegant. I was looking for something like this and prompting my nano banana pro to create it and it would work sometimes but not all the time.
Nice idea! Simple but no one has done it previously, so that counts. (As per some posts, I stand corrected, but still, I believe no one has done it as an implementation.)
A lot of time spent on stuff like this, what we need however is to make QR codes that are faster and easier to scan at distance and angles.
Good looking qr codes is nice, but doing them using AI feels like a huge waste?
yo, design looks dope, 100% gone use it for my business