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WalletWallet

create Apple passes from anything

Details

External ID
46345745
Source
HN
Company
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Product
WalletWallet
Website domain
alen.ro
Launched
Dec. 21, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
448
Upvotes percentile
0.9847328244274809
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Description

I got my Apple developer certificate and built a simple app to solve a problem I had. One shop I buy from doesn't have Apple Wallet passes. Since you need signed certificates to build these very simple things, I created a minimal app that signs them. It's available if you need it too. It won't scan cards with AI - you manually enter the barcode, which I think makes it less prone to error.

Enrichment

Theme
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
generate apple wallet passes from data
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Yes Generating Apple Wallet .pkpass files is a well-defined standard: creating a JSON manifest, bundling image assets, signing with an Apple Pass Type ID certificate via PKCS#7 / OpenSSL, and serving the archive.

Discussion

20 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: Google Wallet, Apple Wallet, Super Cards, Stocard, PassWallet

Concerns raised: Barcode format doesn't match original cards, Apple Wallet won't accept downloaded files, only Safari links, No preview of generated card before downloading, Relies entirely on Cloudflare AI tools with no unique functionality, Security risk of 8k stolen passes

Feature requests: Support multiple barcode formats beyond Code 128, Preview generated card before download, Add location-based pass features, Support for movie tickets and boarding passes

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 95 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #4 of 96 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Looks like the first mover among its competitors.

Other launches for this product

Same idea, different domain

Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.