Free McDonald's burger!

Scan McD's receipt to pre-fill survey code for a free burger

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Scan McD's receipt to pre-fill survey code for a free burger

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Bored to fill out the survey code from your McDonalds's® receipt? Use this app to scan and pre-fill the code for you!

Launch tags:iOS•Web App•Productivity

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Twinty

Maker

Hi Product Hunt! Ok, it’s not really free. McDonald’s has a “Buy 1 Get 1 Free Quarter Pounder” offer if you complete a short survey using the receipt from a previous visit. Sounds easy right? The problem Each McDonald’s receipt contains a 26-digit(?!?!) code which is awfully painful to enter in their website at mcdvoice.com. Depending on your keyboard ninja skills, it could take a while to enter this code on a phone. The solution I built a tiny tool that will scan the receipt, use Optical Character Recognition(OCR) to retrieve the survey code and pre-fill the code in the McDonald’s survey site to get you started. That’s it! What makes this special? - You don’t need to download an app, all you need is a web browser - The receipt is processed on your device, it is not sent anywhere. - You can give away this free burger to someone in need! Use this sample receipt to try it out

That’s all folks. If you find this useful, please share with others.

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8yr ago

@sharathprabhal Does your app work in Germany too?

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8yr ago

Twinty

Maker

@howlerkate Great question! Currently, the app only scans receipts in english. If you can share a sample German receipt, I will add support for it. Thanks!

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8yr ago

@sharathprabhal I will send you a German McDonald's receipt via mail soon 👍

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8yr ago

@sharathprabhal Did you receive them? I also added a Burger King and Subway receipt. 😎

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8yr ago

Twinty

Maker

@howlerkate thank you so much! Will get started on it.

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8yr ago

ExactScience

Plans to open source? Could see something like this for a LOT of other products - surveys are on so many receipts.

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8yr ago

@johnmurch This is a great question, I'm also interested.

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8yr ago

Twinty

Maker

@johnmurch @braunshizzle yup, planning on it. Based on how this is received, I plan to build a mobile app that can generically scan receipts for surveys and codes and opensource it.

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8yr ago

ExactScience

@braunshizzle @sharathprabhal please keep it web based as do like the idea of visiting via safari/chrome and redirecting.

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8yr ago

Agenda Hero Magic

Neat example of how to build something useful that works on the phone but without the need to install an app.

Pros:

no need to fill out long code, no app to install

Cons:

doesn't fill the survey out for you, burger doesn't just show up at my house

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8yr ago

Every store I visit has a survey, so if you can figure out which receipt belongs to which store’s survey, then you are on to something big. Unfortunately I don’t eat at McDonald’s.

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8yr ago

Twinty

Maker

@rmagrino Thanks for the feedback!

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8yr ago

This is a really cool concept. I couldn't get the example receipt to scan though. Instead of turning this into an app, you could make it a PWA so that you can still take advantage of people "installing" it on their phones and have easy access to it.

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8yr ago

Twinty

Maker

@jongaudette Good call. The general feedback I'm hearing is to keep it a webapp.

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8yr ago

This is amazing website to get free McDonalds Burger. In addition to this, If you take MCDVoice survey (https://mcdvoice.zone/), You can get some free coupons for your next visit to McDonalds.

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7yr ago