QRLaju

Small business owners here print QR codes on menus, banners and name cards. They mostly need three things: a link to their website, a phone number to call, or a WhatsApp chat to open. They don’t need an account, analytics or a subscription to do that.

So the rules were simple. The generator runs entirely in the browser, nothing is saved on a server, there is no signup, and the result is a plain PNG you can send straight to the printer. The whole interface is available in English and Bahasa Melayu.

The first version was built quickly on Vuetify. It worked, but it looked like any admin panel: a purple gradient bar, stock Material inputs and three buttons of different colours competing for attention. Nothing about it said “fast” or “free”, which are the two reasons anyone would pick it.

For v2 I removed Vuetify completely and rebuilt the UI in Tailwind CSS with a custom theme. The page now opens on a dark navy hero with the promise in the headline, and the generator sits in a single white card right below it, with one orange button.

The palette lives in the Tailwind config as three named colours, so the markup reads bg-navy, bg-cream and text-accent instead of raw hex values. Orange is kept for the brand bar, the headline’s second line and the one button that matters.

One typeface does all the work. Plus Jakarta Sans at extra-bold, with tight tracking, gives the headline weight; the same family at regular weight keeps the form calm and easy to read.

A QR generator is easy to build and easy to get subtly wrong. Most of the work after launch was in details people only notice when they fail, usually in front of a printer or a customer’s phone.

Bahasa Melayu, not an afterthought

Every string lives in one Pinia store as an English and a Malay version, and the language switch re-renders the whole page in place, including labels, hints and error messages.

On a phone the form and the preview stack, so the QR used to appear somewhere below the fold without any sign that anything happened. Now the page scrolls to the preview as soon as you tap Generate, and the Download button sits right under the code. The tab labels become icons so all three fit in one row.

QR Laju runs on its own domain with a sitemap and analytics, and the redesign turned it from a demo into something that looks worth trusting with your shop’s menu.

Next up is an optional account for people who want saved, editable QR codes they can repoint after printing. The free generator stays exactly as it is: no signup, nothing stored.