Digital business cards
Ten people meet. Nobody reads out a phone number, spells an email, or photographs a badge. Everyone taps once, and every business card in the room has changed hands.
Free. No account, no ads, and nothing of yours kept on our side.
Where we met
Why this one
Think about what that buys them. An email address to market to, a profile to keep, a server with your address book on it. SHOOT asks for none of it, and the reason is simple: it was built so that there is nothing to ask for.
No ads, no pro tier, no subscription for individuals. Companies pay for verified cards in their own design, and that is the whole business. Nothing about you is worth selling to anybody else.
No email, no password, no sign-up screen. Install it, write your card, and it works. Your number never leaves the phone.
Your address book is read on the phone and never sent anywhere. The cards you collect live on your phone and the other person's. We keep no copy, so there is no database here to leak.
I built SHOOT and I could not tell you a single person who has it, or who they met, or what is on their card. There are no accounts and no records — there is simply nothing to look up.
Ten people at a networking event, one tap each, and everybody walks away with everybody's business card. Nobody signed up for anything. What happens to your data →
The mechanic
Someone says "shoot". Everyone presses. Any phone that pressed within the same eight seconds, standing close enough, joins the same huddle.
8 seconds
Everyone kept everyone
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Four people, one table. Nobody types anything and nobody points a camera at a code on somebody else's screen.
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Every phone that presses inside the window joins the same huddle. Miss it and you simply go again — nothing half-happens.
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Someone at the next table tapped at the same moment? Take them out before you confirm. Nothing has been sent yet.
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You get their card only if they also kept yours. No pending requests, no one-sided follows, nothing to accept later.
The cards
A paper card says something before it is read. So does this one — matte black and gold, pressed ink, or a name that lights letter by letter.
Afterwards
Your address book knows a name and a number. It does not know you met at a festival in June, or which of these people is the one who does sound.
Label people the way you actually think of them — Awakening Group, clients, the Tuesday table — and invent a new label whenever none of yours fits. Then search by what someone does rather than by a name you have half forgotten, because the person you need next month is "that ceramicist", not "Jane".
For companies
Your logo and colours on every card, a ✓ Verified mark only your people can get, and nothing to print or hand back.
What it does
The tap is for a room. For everything else there is a camera, a link, and a card that works for people who do not have the app.
A LinkedIn QR code, an Instagram name tag, a contact code, another SHOOT card: point the camera and it is kept as a card. The reading happens on the phone; no image goes anywhere.
Photograph a paper business card and it becomes a card. Photograph a conference badge and the person is filed under that event, with everyone else you met there.
Your card is a link and a QR code. Someone without SHOOT opens a web page, sees the card as you designed it, and saves it to their contacts with one button. Someone with SHOOT gets it in the app.
Up to forty people tap together and every card swaps both ways. Numbers and emails only cross once both sides keep each other. Name the moment, and the whole trip is one tap to find next year.
Yes. Open the scanner, point the camera at the LinkedIn code, and the person is kept as a card with their name and a link to their profile. Instagram name tags, vCard and MeCard codes, and other SHOOT cards work the same way.
Yes. Photograph the card inside the frame and the text is read on the phone into a card. A badge is read the same way and filed under the event, so everyone from one conference is together.
No. Your card is a link and a QR code. Anyone can open it in a browser, see the card as you designed it, and save it to their contacts. If they do have SHOOT, the link opens in the app instead.
Yes, for individuals, with no ads, no pro tier and no subscription. Companies pay for verified cards in their own design, with a dashboard and offboarding. That is the whole business model.
Nothing. There is no account and no database. Your card lives on your phone and on the phones of the people who kept it. Position is used for a few seconds during a tap to find the phones beside you and is never written down.
Privacy
Not a promise about how carefully we would look after it. There is no database, no account, and nothing on our side to look after.
The whole policy is two pages, and worth reading.