CLIPTAP

QR STICKER FOR YOUR CAR

Anyone can message you about your car. Nobody gets your number.

A ClipTap vehicle tag is a QR sticker for your windshield. Scan it with any phone camera and it opens a private message box — you're about to be towed, your lights are on, your window's down, you're blocking someone in. The message reaches you immediately. Your name and number never appear anywhere.

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Why not just tape your phone number in the window?

Because then every stranger in the parking lot has your phone number. It gets photographed, it gets prank-called, it gets fed into spam lists, and it tells anyone who cares exactly how to look you up. A ClipTap tag flips that: people can always reach you about this car, and that's the only thing they can do. No name, no number, no profile — just a message box, both directions.

How it works

  1. Create a vehicle tag. Give the car a label only you choose — "Silver Tacoma" — so a scanner knows they've got the right vehicle. That label is the only thing they'll ever see about you.
  2. Print the sticker sheet. Every tag comes with a printable sheet of twelve 2-inch QR stickers. Print on sticker stock, put one inside the windshield glass and one on the rear window. Cameras read them straight through the glass.
  3. Get messages, answer privately. A scan opens a message box — no app, no sign-up. Messages land in your vehicle inbox with an email ping. Replies travel through the same anonymous thread.

What people actually use it for

"Your car's about to be towed."The single most valuable message a windshield can receive. Two minutes of warning beats a $250 tow lot every time.
"You're blocking my driveway."They message instead of calling the city, you move the car, everyone's day continues. More on being blocked in →
"Your lights are on."Or your window's open and it's about to rain. Small stuff — until it's your battery, in January.
"Is this car for sale?"Buyers can ask without you painting your phone number on the glass, and you can ignore them without being harassed.

QR first, NFC optional — for a reason

NFC is great in a wallet card and unreliable through a car window; glass and distance defeat the tap more often than not. So the vehicle tag leads with what always works: a printed QR code that any phone camera reads through the windshield. If you want tap too, program any cheap NFC inlay with the same link and mount it beside the sticker — the sheet leaves room for exactly that.

Broke down and had to walk away? Vehicle tags have an emergency mode: scanners see a NOT ABANDONED notice with the time you activated it, backed by a tamper-evident log. How the breakdown notice works →

Common questions

Does the person scanning need an app?

No. Every modern phone camera reads QR codes natively. Scanning opens a plain web page with a message box — no app, no account, no sign-up for either side.

Do I have to put my name or number on my car?

No, and that's the point. Whoever scans your tag sees only the label you wrote — "Silver Tacoma" — so they know they got the right car. Nothing about you.

What does the scanner see?

A message box and your vehicle label. Not your name, not your email, not your profile. Replies go through the same private thread — neither side learns who the other is unless they choose to say.

How do I get replies?

Messages land in your ClipTap vehicle inbox and you're notified by email. The sender keeps a private link to the thread so they can read your reply — still without an account.

What stops spam?

Messages are throttled per tag and per sender, and you can pause any thread. You can also deactivate the tag entirely without re-printing anything.

Put a private line on your windshield.

Create your tag, print the stickers, and the next "your car is about to be towed" reaches you in time to matter.

Set up your vehicle tag