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Workable solution for "who was in the office" to aid tracing, but the capacity part seems a bit off.

You'd really want to know ahead of commuting what the planned capacity is, and make a decision based off of that.

Otherwise you run the risk of travelling in and walking into an over capacity office. Surely better to prevent this than view a report about it after the fact.

One feature for the "Standard" plan (coming October 2020) says "Employees pre-book work from office days".

Why does the QR code need to be scanned from an iPad? In Singapore's now mandatory and hence ubiquitous SafeEntry system, the check-in QR codes are simply printed out and pasted near the entrance.

Also, the <title> tag is blank, which looks rather unappealing since you get a raw URL in browser tab instead.

For employees, the iPad scans the QR code from the employee's phone. It's only for visitors where they scan the QR code on the iPad.

There seem to be quite a few of these around, but I've yet to see a decent on premise (i.e. non-cloud-based one).

Some companies have policies against things like data on company personnel and visitors sitting in some random undefined cloud location.

This is a pretty high profile name collision.

https://wellcome.org/

I assumed the two were related - given [the real] Wellcome is quite active in COVID-19 stuff - and was very confused for a while.

Raise price from $25 to $39 and limit the number of visitors every month on that plan. Next plan should be at least $99.

Validate pricing by finding a few customers in your network.

Probably want to fix your HTML <title>. Right now it's empty.

And set a favicon too.

It would be useful to know how the app does “contact tracing”. Also, how is workplace data managed..

Nit: Google Wallet is long gone. Should've replaced that logo with Google Pay's

It seems you’ve put a lot of effort in it. Well done. Really like the design

hey everyone, this is Richard, one of the co-founders of Wellcome. Thanks very much for the really great feedback, we will look at all of this carefully. Cheers!

Am I the only one mildly annoyed by the (on purpose) typo in the name?

Edit: Considering there seems to be a charity with the same name active in Covid19, this also seems to be a bad choice for legal reasons.

https://wellcome.org/

It may be a trademark issue as well, since there's a very well known trust and former pharma giant (now part of GlaxoSmithKline) that uses the same name: https://wellcome.org/about-us

There’s also a market by the same name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellcome

Yes, I was confused about the naming too. As there is the Wellcome Foundation/museum in London

See: https://wellcomecollection.org

My first thought when I saw the name was the Wellcome Trust, for whom I did some work when I was in college. It's a poor choice of name.

With all these examples of other things that have the same name, is almost like it’s okay if a bunch of things have the same name

And a Hong Kong supermarket of the same name.

My first thought was that they're going to trip over a bunch of pharma trademarks.

I used to work at https://wellcomemat.com :)

Why isn’t it Well com

Like a telecom but for wellness

wellcom.org

>All data is captured in a way that’s easily reportable to the government.

This is a feature? No thanks!

I can understand this feature. At my bar we have to record contact details for every guest such that they may be given to government contact tracers if a COVID case is reported. Currently this is pen and paper

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/contact-tracing-data-harv...

In some countries, data recording is a requirement. But, it's also required to delete it after a certain duration.

I’m thankful to live in a state that doesn’t have this requirement.

Curious, which city, country do you operate in.

Nyc, indoor dining only recently opened, this and temperature checks are one the requirements, along with 20% capacity, no groups larger than 10, table service only

At least Germany has this kind of law.

This is a legal requirement for some businesses. For example, some of our clients handle ITAR parts. (ex military parts that the US doesn't want shared with foreign nationals) For such an organization, hearing that the data export is easy (rather than a costly add on) is definitely a feature, even if the likelihood of such an audit is low.

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