PassDrop - Turn anything into an apple wallet pass

@lucas_edwards1 Thanks! I invite you to try it yourself — forward some of your old emails to make@passdrop.app. In my experience, the ones I get from Airbnb generally don’t work, as there’s nothing in them that can be turned into a pass — no QR codes or scannable data. Maybe yours are a better fit.

In general, I had to decide whether the system should generate a pass even if it's essentially useless (e.g. you send an email that just says "Hello world", and we create a pass with "Hello world" as the title and nothing else), or if it should reject inputs that don’t contain anything scannable — like a QR code or passcode. I chose the more practical route and made it reject passes with no QR codes.

@matthew_phillips4 Great to hear! Feel free to share it with your friends — would be great to see more people using it.

@woody_robles Thanks! Right now, PassDrop simply takes a snapshot of whatever you provide and turns it into an Apple Wallet pass.

As for keeping it updated — I'd be happy to add this feature, but help me think through how exactly it should work. The main reason I built this was because, for example, I often book tickets for events or venues and they only send the tickets as a PDF in a confirmation email. With PassDrop, I can quickly and easily turn those into Wallet passes, which is much more convenient.

In that kind of use case, I just can't see what "keeping them updated" would even mean or do.

@ayesha_akram4 Thanks! Yes, it works with any text or images. It doesn’t process video, audio, encrypted data, or custom file formats. The email subject, body, attached images, and PDFs are all processed.

@samuel_kahlo Thanks! Only Apple Wallet, to my understanding from Android users I've spoken to, they already have some built-in tools for this, or some other such way, where the use-case that PassDrop affords iPhone users just does not make sense to the Android users that I've talked to. Happy to learn more tho, as I am not an active Android user, so if it there is a demand for PassDrop-like tool, I could explore it.

@alexis_luo Thanks! Sure - if people find this kind of solution helpful. There's also a B2B pathway: businesses that don't want to invest in custom development to create their own Wallet passes can use our API to generate passes directly from their existing tickets and send them to customers. We can also discuss white-labeling the passes if needed.

@fargar thanks!