About / "Why This Exists" — Tap the Bolt, by Fast Eddie Web

Why this exists

I'm Ed Hildenbrand. I've spent more than twenty years behind a high-end bar in Pittsburgh, and here's what twenty years of regulars teaches you: business runs on people remembering you — and on you remembering them.

A paper card gets lost in a coat pocket by Friday. The big digital-card companies will fix that for you, but they'll charge you like you're a corporation, and most of them stamp their own logo on your card until you pay extra to have it removed.

That never sat right with me. A card that carries your name should carry your name — not an ad for the company that sold it to you.

So I built the plainer, cheaper version myself. It's part of Fast Eddie Web, the company I run — same business, same name on the receipt. This is the AI Tools side of it: the part you can get without building a website at all.

What it is

A digital business card that lives on a physical card in your wallet and a link you can send anywhere.

• Tap the card against someone's phone and your contact page opens. No app for them to download.
• No tap? No problem. Every card also carries a printed QR code that does the same thing.
• Your page shows what you put on it — your photo or your logo, your name, your work, your links — in your colors. You edit it yourself, whenever you want, and every card you've ever handed out is instantly current. Change your number once; you never reprint anything.
• When someone wants to hand their information back, they can — right from your page. It lands in your own list, attached to your card.

Who it's for

People whose regulars are the business. Bartenders and servers. Realtors. Contractors. Stylists. Anyone who meets somebody great, has ninety seconds, and can't afford to be forgotten by the weekend.

If your income walks in the door and decides whether to come back, this card is built for you.

How it spreads (in plain words)

Every card page has one small link at the bottom: get your own card. When somebody signs up through your card, the system remembers that your card is where they found it.

That's it. No scheme, no pressure on your page — your page stays about you. But it means the cards do the introducing, one regular at a time, the same way a good bartender's name travels. Your card brought them; the record shows it.

The deal, straight

This is a small tool built by a small company, and it's priced like one — the price is right there in the signup, tax and total shown before you pay anything, no surprises at the last step. No games with your guests' information, either: what people share with your card goes to you, and nobody gets auto-texted. Ever.

I'm not a tech company with a sales floor. I'm a bartender from Pittsburgh who got tired of watching regular people overpay for a simple thing. If that sounds like your kind of outfit, welcome aboard.

— Ed Hildenbrand, Fast Eddie Web LLC, Pittsburgh, PA