NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android
Details
- External ID
- 48036182
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- NFC tags are good material for pranks on Android
- Website domain
- mastodon.social
- Launched
- May 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 18
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7245557350565428
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- consumer mobile utilities and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- nfc tag pranks for android
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Writing an NDEF URL record to a physical NFC tag is a standard feature implemented in existing Android mobile apps or simple custom utilities.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Android phones have inconsistent NFC URL handling behavior
Feature requests: Allow custom URL redirection instead of only opening Gemini
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 85 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #27 of 86 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 174 days after the earliest competitor.
- Open-source passive NFC tag that signs with ECDSA, verified on-chain · hn · 2026-09-15 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- NFC Studio · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- NFC Energy-Harvesting PCB Business Card with an MCU · hn · 2026-08-28 · 231 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- TapRepute · ph · 2026-09-13 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- onarv · ph · 2026-09-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- We built a way for web apps to message users' phones without SMS · hn · 2026-09-29 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Open security key on nrf52480 with NFC · hn · 2026-04-20 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- LifeLedger · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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