Building a great App Clip experience: lessons from NFC.cool Business Card
Recap of the mDevCamp 2025 talk in Prague about the architecture behind NFC.cool Business Card's App Clip flow.
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I can't remember anyone I meet. So I built this into the business card app.
After enough conferences and networking events, I realised digital business cards solved the wrong problem. They saved trees but not the context. So I added a Smart Context layer to NFC.cool Business Card - where you met, what they're working on, what to follow up on.
Exploring NameDrop's elegance and the enduring edge of NFC business cards
NameDrop is gorgeous - but it's iOS-only. Why NFC business cards remain the cross-platform winner for serious networking.
Setting up the NFC.cool digital business card
A walkthrough of setting up your NFC.cool digital business card: build the contact, pick what's public, write to an NFC tag, and share. Plus why a single editable URL beats a one-shot vCard QR for serious networking.
NFC.cool is now on the Play Store
NFC.cool Tools is live on Google Play. NFC scanning, tag writing, and the bundled NFC.cool Business Card - now on Android, with the same feature set as the iOS app for the parts that share Android-compatible hardware.
Tap, scan, thrive: what QR codes can carry beyond a URL
QR codes aren't just for URLs. They can carry Wi-Fi credentials, calendar events, locations, vCards, plain text - anything you can encode. Here's the full menu of what NFC.cool's QR generator and scanner can do.