SocialTags

Project Description

Founder build · Cloudflare Workers · live at socialtags.io

SocialTags — a tag that can change its mind

A printed QR code or an NFC chip is permanent; the link behind it never is. SocialTags puts a code you can re-point between the two, so a tag handed out today can open a different page next month without reprinting anything. Built by AZ Tech on Cloudflare Workers, and made by hand on our own 3D printer in Tucson.

Same day

first commit → live site

170+

commits in the first week

216

automated tests

printer in Tucson

Visit socialtags.io →Business pricing

The problem

Once it’s printed, it’s stuck.

Every business card, flyer, table sign and keychain with a QR code on it is a bet that the link will never change. Then the menu moves, the event ends, the campaign wraps, the Instagram handle changes, and a box of printed tags quietly starts pointing at the wrong place — or at nothing.

NFC tags have the same problem with one more twist: they get handed away. A tag given out at a market or a show ends up in someone else’s pocket, and the person holding it has no way to make it theirs.

Tags we print

Every tag starts as a drawing and comes off our own printer, chip sealed inside.

Instagram, Snapchat, WhatsApp and the other names and logos shown belong to their owners, who haven’t made, approved or sponsored these tags. We don’t sell social-network tags; they’re samples we give away.

What it does

One code, many lives: claim it, point it, change it, pass it on.

Claim it free

Someone hands you a tag? Tap it, claim it, and point it at your link or a free page of your own. $5 once removes the SocialTags mark from every tag you hold.

Change it any time

The chip and the QR never change. Where they open does — from a phone, in seconds, with nothing reprinted.

Business portals

Collections of tags, campaigns, lineups on a schedule, events, taps and scans, and the contacts people choose to share.

Bring your own codes

Makers who put their own NFC chips or QR codes on their products manage where every one goes — free for one collection of 100 codes.

An Office for staff

Invitations, orders and approvals run through an Office inside the same portal, with Slack telling a human before anything ships.

A public gallery

Photos of the tags we’ve actually printed, approved one by one before they’re shown.

How it was built

The same method as everything we ship: draw it as a system, hand it to an AI crew, ship the real thing.

Serverless from day one

A single Cloudflare Worker with D1, KV and R2 behind it — no servers to patch, fast everywhere, and cheap while it grows.

Decided on paper

Every rule — prices, guards, what a free tag shows — was argued in a written decision before it was built, so the code has a reason behind every line.

Tested as it went

216 automated tests run on every change, so a week of daily changes never broke a tag already in someone’s hand.

Made in Tucson

Tags are designed in code and printed on our own Bambu printer, with the chip dropped in mid-print and sealed under the top layers.

From the first commit to a live site in one day, and a full business platform within the week. SocialTags is the proof.

Handing things out with your name on them?

Business plans start at $29 a month, with your logo on the tags and every one of them re-pointable for life. Or bring us the idea you can’t get built — that’s how SocialTags started.

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