How it works
Three seconds,
start to finish.
Nothing to install, no account for them to make, no pairing. Hold the card to a phone and a page opens.
The whole interaction
Tap. Connect.
Remember.
Roughly three seconds in real life. Let it run, or step through it yourself.
Hold near the card
Tap to meet
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Step 1 of 3: Tap. Hold the card against any phone. The chip wakes up and the phone reads it. Nothing to install, nothing to pair.
What’s going on
Four moving parts.
The card
A passive NFC tag laminated between two metal faces, holding one rewritable address.
The field
Their phone emits a short-range radio field. That field powers the chip and reads it.
The profile
A fast, static page under your own handle. This is the part you control.
The memory
Still being built. A record of who you met and what came next, if you want one.
Straight answers
The questions
people ask.
- What is actually on the chip?
- A web address, and nothing else. No contact details, no photo, no tracking identifier. The chip is just a signpost. Everything it points at lives on your profile, where you can change it whenever you like.
- Which phones can read it?
- Essentially every phone sold in the last several years. Recent iPhones and Android handsets read NFC tags from the lock screen with no app and no setup. Older or locked-down devices fall back to the printed code.
- What if their phone doesn’t tap?
- The back of the card carries a QR code that goes to the same profile. It takes a second longer and works on anything with a camera.
- Does the card need charging?
- No. It has no battery and no electronics beyond the chip and its antenna. The reading phone powers it for the fraction of a second it needs.
- What does MET know about a tap?
- As designed, only that a profile was opened and roughly when. We’re building it so the person tapping is never identified silently. If they want to be remembered, they press a button and say so.