Robin - Turn your phone into a card reader in 10 minutes
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Your phone is now a card terminal! Accept card payments in 10 minutes. No terminal. Just your phone.
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hey product hunt,
i'm faw, building robin as a solo founder.
few months back i talked to a food truck owner in kuala lumpur who was turning away customers with cards. getting a terminal would cost him rm2k upfront (usd 500) or rm200/month plus a huge deposit. he makes maybe rm3k on a good month.
this is the reality for most small vendors in malaysia. less than half accept card payments. not because they don't want to - cards are actually preferred 17x over qr codes here - but because the barrier is impossibly high.
weeks of paperwork. expensive hardware. confusing fee structures.
meanwhile everyone has a phone that can do everything a terminal does.
so we built robin:
- turn any android phone into a card reader in 10 minutes
- automated bookkeeping and tax compliance
- smart insights on when to reorder, when to run promos
where we're at:
- live in malaysia. iterating hard and honestly still figuring out pmf. i've spoken to a couple vendors and am tweaking as i go
- the infrastructure here is built for big retailers, not micro-businesses. we're trying to change that.
question for you:
if you ran a small business, what would make you switch from cash/qr to card payments? what are we missing?
thanks for checking us out!
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