Badgey: Your iPhone becomes a name badge that faces the room

The app is free, with in-app purchases, and users build a badge from a photo, name, role and one of five styles: Classic, Office, Event, Minimal or Live. The Live style includes an animated background, with 15 to choose from. Each badge can be flipped to show a QR code that links to the user's page, so a card can be shared without typing a URL. The product was launched on Product Hunt, where it drew 216 upvotes and 8 comments. Several other products cover parts of this use case. Hello, My Name Is Badge is a separate iPhone app that generates and shares personalized animated badges for all attendees in minutes, and it sends them by AirDrop, email or messenger. Elatec's Mobile Badge takes a different route and turns a smartphone into a contactless badge for authentication and access. BadgeHub targets organizations and produces physical or virtual ID badges for employees, students, members, and other cardholders. For a founder building an AI company, the value is in the distribution surface. A name badge is worn at conferences, demo days and customer meetings, and a QR code that opens a profile or product page turns each conversation into a referral path. Teams building event, identity or networking tools should also track whether phone-based badges become the default at events, since that would change how attendee data and contact exchange work.