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Keshav Agrawal
Keshav Agrawal

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Found this on Product Hunt today. Is gamified pricing the new way to trick people into paying for QR codes?

So I saw this thing called KyurGen_GHOST on Product Hunt. It’s an AI QR generator, but the UI looks like a 1990s hacker terminal. [Link: https://kyu-r-gen-pro.vercel.app]

The weirdest part is that instead of a normal loading screen, there’s a game where you click bubbles to "hack" the price. I tried it and it actually dropped the price from ₹15 down to like ₹7.

Is this genius or just a weird gimmick to make people feel like they "earned" a discount? Also, they have a massive red "X" watermark on the preview so you can't even screenshot it.

Who actually pays for QR codes anymore? Why would anyone upvote this on PH? I'm genuinely confused if this is the future of "Anti-SaaS" or just over-engineered.

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