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.
3D scanning on iPhone: what photogrammetry and LiDAR can do in your pocket
NFC.cool Tools turns your iPhone into a 3D scanner using Apple's Object Capture API. Photogrammetry plus LiDAR produces models you can export to .stl, .obj, .usdz - ready for 3D printing, AR, or any modelling pipeline.
Pocket-ready document scanning with NFC.cool Tools
A practical guide to NFC.cool's document scanner: how to capture sharp scans, why the post-processing step matters, and how OCR turns the scan into searchable text and PDFs.