Vince💡
vancesolar.bsky.social
Vince💡
@vancesolar.bsky.social
Building 🚧 Iterating 🔄 Learning💡

Create branded QR codes with built-in analytics👇
https://qrsurge.com

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Very useful insights, thanks for sharing!
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Not yet! I’ve been working in the shadows with growth mostly coming through some Reddit posts and SEO.

I wanted to launch on PH but I don’t have an engaged audience to help promote it.

I might go for it anyway in a couple weeks after I finish this current feature I’m working on!
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
I’ve been consistently working on qrsurge.com for the past 11 months and I’m finally starting to see some real traction:

1,014 registered users
6 paying customers
$128 MRR

Monetization was a struggle at first but I think it’s finally finding product-market fit!
October 20, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The landing page for QRSurge is hosted for free on Cloudflare Pages. The dashboard is hosted on Fly.io. Using Neon for the DB but I plan to switch to DigitalOcean.

For a while my hosting costs were < $7 but I outgrew the Neon free tier so now it’s more like $22.
October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yea they can be improved. I tried generating images using ChatGPT and NanoBanana but they came out looking awful. No coherent style and content literally going off the edges of the image.

That wasted about a day and at that point it became ship first and iterate later.
October 20, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Nice landing page! One of my biggest challenges at the moment is getting feedback from my users. Even the paying ones don’t respond to my emails 😅
October 19, 2025 at 12:50 PM
I thought it would be easy and I could earn some side income. Turns out I was wrong on both fronts 😅
July 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I’m also launching a completely revamped landing page, making it much easier to generate fully custom static and dynamic QR codes for free!

Keep an eye out in the coming days 👀
July 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I admit I have a hard time letting go of unused domains
June 2, 2025 at 3:54 PM
I’m dealing with this right now! I’m redesigning my landing page and trying to improve SEO but it’s hard to know what keywords to target in a competitive space.
May 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Right now just posting on Reddit. Going to start posting to directories soon but I’ve just been lazy about it
May 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
That’s a pretty slick business card! Btw if you want to create a trackable QR code that doesn’t show ads you can use qrsurge.com 😎
May 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Nice! What did you do to improve your DR?
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM