The challenge
Connect customer referrals and local offers to a practical merchant checkout workflow.
iOS referral platform
Refaro | Referral hub for real-world offers
Refaro connects local offers, customer referrals, and merchant rewards in one iOS app. Discover deals, show your QR pass at checkout, and follow your reward progress.
From concept to release
Behind the product.
An Idea as Code product, built and published by our team.
What we delivered
Refaro combines offer discovery, customer QR passes, merchant scanning, and reward management in a published iOS app.
For your next project
Products with multiple audiences need clear roles and understandable states. Refaro demonstrates how we connect customer experiences with business tools.
Discuss a product idea →Project summary
A public-facing project that demonstrates execution quality.
Refaro is an iOS referral hub that helps customers claim local offers, show one QR pass at checkout, and lets participating merchants scan, manage, and measure referral rewards.
Try it live
Download Refaro on the App Store.
Refaro is available on the App Store as an iOS referral hub for customers and participating businesses. Customers can discover offers, claim referrals, save deals, and show a Refaro QR pass. Merchants can connect a business, create deals, scan customer passes, and track reward progress.
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What people can expect from the experience.
Available now on the App Store for iPhone
Customer QR pass for claimed referral offers
Live catalog connected through Vercel and Supabase
Merchant onboarding for claiming or creating a business
Deal builder for business-specific referral rewards
Business checkout flow for scanning customer passes
Reward progress, redemption limits, and claim state tracking
Admin dashboard for reviewing businesses and owner connections
Why it matters
What this project says about Idea as Code.
Turns a broad referral-marketplace concept into a testable local commerce workflow
Demonstrates execution across iOS, API design, Supabase Auth, QR redemption logic, business tooling, and App Store delivery
Creates a practical product surface for testing merchant-paid referral economics after businesses see value
Experience design
The product qualities we wanted this project to express.
A simple customer flow: find an offer, claim it, then show one QR pass at checkout
A focused merchant flow: sign in, connect a business, create a deal, and scan customers
Clear offer states so saved, claimed, ready-to-scan, and used rewards are understandable
Real-world pilot support for local food, catering, coffee, services, and community sellers