Show HN: Get a plastic, wallet-size vaccine card
vaxcard.com
vaxcard.com
Anyone vaccinated can download a PDF version of this certificate with its social security number in France.
I understand better why US citizen have trouble to travel in Europe since there is actually no proof that one is really vaccinated.
In Canada you can receive up to $20,000 in fines for falsifying this information, so you really have to want to avoid the shots badly if you wanted to go down that route.
But the reality is, most places that aren't medical or international border facilities, that would require proof of vaccination simply don't have the ability to verify any of the current certificates. Including the original CDC cards from the US.
The website and domain whois info don't say who these people are, and don't ever mention they are in any way connected to the CDC. It looks like all they do is take the hand-written parts of your original cards and plug them into their template that may or may not be using the CDC logo and identity legally.
None, and that’s the real problem of the CDC cards. For a service like this to succeed, it needs to come up with a verifiable solution, which I admit is pretty difficult to do other than on a federal or state level.
What are you bringing to the table that I couldn’t easily do myself?
My name is Sean, and I'm a fractional CTO / full-stack developer. This is a project I joined up with a couple months ago. I figured the HN community would appreciate seeing our lean MVP.
We're solving that simple, pesky problem of oversized CDC vaccine cards not fitting in wallets (and getting torn to shreds in doing so). The web app allows you to scan your vaccine card, and we'll ship you a credit-card size plastic VaxCard that fits much better.
I'm happy to answer any questions (especially around technical and security details). I love sharing new products with this community (for some brutal honesty ;))!
Feels the hostility here is a bit overblown.