ThankYou LLC
QR-powered gifting app that attaches personal video messages to every gift.
Client Overview
ThankYou LLC transforms ordinary gifting into a personal moment: senders attach a video, photo, or PDF message to a physical gift via a scannable QR sticker. We built the full backend that powers QR provisioning, media upload, recipient notifications, and the mobile experience on both iOS and Android.
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The Challenges
Designing a QR lifecycle: provisioned, attached to a gift, scanned by a recipient, then bound forever.
Handling large media uploads (video/photo/PDF) reliably from mobile devices.
Delivering instant push notifications the moment a recipient scans their sticker.
Building a backend that integrates cleanly with Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, and Cloudinary.
Solutions & Strategies
QR + Media Backend
- Built a backend service that updates the QR record on first scan and binds it to recipient media.
- Streamed uploads to Cloudinary for fast, transformation-ready media delivery.
Notifications & Messaging
- Used Firebase Cloud Messaging for push notifications across iOS and Android.
- Layered Twilio (SMS) and SendGrid (email) for sender and recipient communications.
Deployment & Reliability
- Deployed the Node.js backend on AWS EC2 with SSL and a custom GoDaddy domain.
- Set up GitHub-based CI/CD for safe iteration on backend services.
The Results
✓Key Achievements
- Full backend delivered end-to-end with multi-vendor integrations.
- Reliable QR-to-media binding flow on first scan.
- Cross-platform push notifications via Firebase.
- Production deployment on AWS EC2 with CI/CD.
★Project Highlights
- Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, Firebase, and Cloudinary integrated in one stack.
- Native iOS and Android experience via React Native.
- Instant scan-to-notification recipient flow.
- Media pipeline supporting video, photo, and PDF gifts.
Technologies Used
Mobile
Backend
Database
Media & Messaging
Infrastructure