Zest launches a Claude-built QR code designer with woven graphics
Creator VibinVentricles launched Zest, a QR code designer built with Claude and later developed in Claude Code that incorporates images and logos into the code, reads the result back dot by dot, and exports SVG, PNG, or a press PDF. The creator says designing is free without an account and downloaded static codes do not expire. Paid plans add features including animated downloads, smart codes, batch tools, and plugins. Newly listed Labs features include Halo, Full bleed, Murmur to go, and Zest Rings. The announcement comes from the creator and has not been independently tested.
The release provides a concrete example of a working product developed with Claude. The creator describes using project rules, an automated verification script, session retrospectives, and real-phone testing throughout development.
| I built this with Claude, it's called zest: zest.lemoncello.studio. Designing is free, there's no account, and the static codes you download never expire. Why I work in print. QR codes cross my desk every day and after a decade of them landing on everything I'm tired of plain squares. A QR code has spare room built in (padding and error correction), so zest uses that room to push the dots toward your image's lights and darks. Your logo ends up woven into the data instead of stuck on top. Then it reads the result back, dot by dot, before it lets you download. Early on I fed it the Mona Lisa for a laugh, printed it big, and it scanned. That's when it stopped being an experiment and started being a product. How the work actually went I'm not a developer. Claude wrote the code; I set the design, the rules and the bar, and I tested everything on real phones. There was a lot of back and forth. Me trying to understand its reasoning for certain approaches and designs. Giving new direction. I have a hobbyists' understanding of programming so that certainly helped make things easier. A few other things that made it work: The hardest bits were the ones you'd expect: making a code that is mostly picture still scan, making animated codes where every frame scans and looks decent. I started in mid-August in the browser chat, copying files around and keeping everything organized by hand. It was a very complicated looking page with a dozen sections and subsections of controls. I moved to Claude Code in late September and it's been about 150 commits since. What it does now Pricing Free to design; Pass $4 one-time for 14 days of unlimited static downloads; Pro $12/mo adds animated downloads and smart codes, batch tools and the plugins; Business $30/mo adds Lucky scans and stamp cards for businesses, shops and cafés. What I'd like from this sub Happy to answer anything about the workflow, the rules file, or how the scan-checking works. submitted by /u/VibinVentricles [link] [comments] |
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