KoRaft - Print. Stick. Scan. QR-based restock for small teams.

Hey Product Hunt 👋

I'm the solo dev behind KoRaft. Here's the story.

What inspired me to build this

Honestly - YouTube. I kept coming across videos of restaurants and small businesses talking about the same headache: running out of the stuff at the worst possible moment. Not expensive things. Not hard-to-source things. Just the stuff nobody remembered to reorder because the "system" was a spreadsheet nobody updated or a WhatsApp message that scrolled away. Every video had a version of the same broken loop.

The tools that solve this properly are built for warehouses and cost $129–$400/mo before you even log in. Way too much for a burger place or a 3-chair salon. So I figured it was time to build something cheap, dead-simple and easy for a small team to actually keep running - not another inventory platform, just a clean signal from the shelf to whoever does the ordering.

The problem I was trying to solve

The gap between "someone at the shelf noticed we're low" and "the order got placed" is where most stockouts happen. Existing inventory tools solve the wrong half - they're great at tracking what you *have*, terrible at capturing the moment someone realizes what you *need*. I wanted the scan itself to be the reorder trigger. No app to open. No login for the person at the shelf. Just point a phone camera at the QR sticker and it's logged.

How the approach evolved

I started with a full "warehouse-lite" build - barcodes, SKU generation, stock counts, the works. A few weeks in, I ripped most of it out. It became obvious that small businesses don't want to count stock, they want a signal. So I stripped it down to three states - Triggered, Ordered, Received - and made the QR card the entire interaction surface. Everything else (statistics, supplier lead-time tracking, email drafts) is downstream of that one scan.

The other big pivot was making anonymous scans the default. My first version required login for every scan "for security." Nobody would've used it in a real kitchen. The whole point is that the person at the shelf shouldn't need to know anything - including a password. SecureScan mode is now opt-in for sensitive items only.

Happy to answer anything about the tech stack (Node + Supabase + vanilla JS, no framework), the pricing math for €9–€50/mo tiers. Try it free at koraft.com - no credit card needed for the 14-day trial.

Thanks for taking a look. 🙏

Love how you skipped the app and login wall entirely - just a QR card and a scan does the job. The Triggered → Ordered → Received flow feels like it was designed by someone who's actually run out of something mid-shift.

Adding a simple CSV export or basic reporting view would be super helpful so we can spot reorder trends over time or share stock data with our accountant without digging through individual reorder logs.

love how simple this is, scanning a card instead of fiddling with an app is honestly the kind of thing small shops actually need. one thing i'd love though: a basic prediction feature that flags items based on past reorder timing before they run out, basically nudging you ahead of the stock out instead of reacting to it. could be optional too.

The no-app QR scan flow sounds perfect for my tiny shop, love that it skips the login nonsense. One thing that would save me a lot of headaches though: let suppliers receive the reorder email directly with the SKU, quantity, and my delivery notes prefilled, so I don't have to forward anything or type it twice.

A weekly auto-generated reorder report emailed to owners would be a really useful addition, especially for folks running small spots who don't have time to check the dashboard daily. Maybe include suggested order quantities based on recent usage so it's more of a one-click action.