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The built-in server and remote support is pretty nice! API seems solid, and I dig the QR codes.

Qr codes are pretty cool just a shame it never really took off.

What do you mean it didn't take off? QR code detection is implemented in native iOS camera and IIRC most android implementations too. Almost everyone can use it.

In that sense it took off more than bitcoin.

That is true, its just not as widely used as I would have hoped.

I feel like that has changed over the past few years. Many restaurants in my area started using them for menus, and I recently saw them used to setup wifi while on vacation.

Maybe it's just were I live?

The only places I see qr codes is on my phone to share the WiFi password and on products to scan for compitions and from time to time on advertising at bus stoos

Very popular in nost of South and Southeast Asia

I just paid my lunch tab by scanning a QR code on a receipt, and then tapping Apple Pay. It was rad.

In my country (BR) this transfer method (Pix) that can be iniatiated with a QR code has really picked up - I'm surprised a simple "scam" - replacing printed QR codes that are glued to resturant tables - hasn't caught on yet.

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