QRQ

Hello Product Hunt 👋 QRQ is a non-commercial project started mainly because of curiosity and a tiny bit of hope that it might contribute to the fight against the virus spread. It sort of rethinks how waiting in queues can be like and also tries to pioneer in areas where queue management systems are not considered to be used at all. Waiting in queues with other people during pandemics means being exposed to the risk of infection. Not saying that waiting in line isn't the most pleasant experience by itself. QRQ addresses both of these issues by allowing visitors to wait safely anywhere they want and not worrying about missing their turn. Visitors claim the place in the queue by scanning a QR-code or following a short URL and then they can track their progress using a smartphone. This way there is no need to wait in line — visitors are free to take a walk, wait in the car, or just wait nearby. Social distancing is enforced naturally. It's also straightforward for hosts to adopt QRQ. No need to pay, register or install any apps. QRQ is made so that any small business or individual could make use of it with nearly zero investments. It takes minutes to set up: just by visiting a website and typing in the name for the queue host gets a fully-fledged queue management solution. These are quite sticking features of QRQ but I want to point out what I find particularly keen about this project. The need for the queue management system is often temporal and arises periodically or spontaneously. In such cases It's not worth it to adopt classic electronic queue management systems — they are too costly, take too much effort to install, remove, and need space to store. Usually, no one even thinks of adopting queue management systems in these cases. Yet QRQ can be set up in minutes, used for hours, and then be forgotten if it's no longer needed. Thanks to this ability to be ephemeral I imagine QRQ being applied in such areas for which queue management systems are not a common thing or not being used at all. As an example, imagine a university professor that needs to assess dozens of students in person during an examination. Commonly, students end up waiting their turn for hours crowding next to the classroom door. Setting up a classic electronic queue management system seems to be overkill in this case and it would not really fix anything. But using QRQ professor could easily provide students with an opportunity to wait anywhere they want: in a quiet library preparing for the assessment, in the cafeteria casually having lunch, or waiting nearby. Considering that peculiarity it will be interesting to see how far QRQ will go with adoption and what use cases will it fit. Hope you find this project valuable. Please share what you think!