Meadow lets you leave your smartphone at home without sacrificing the essentials

I held my breath as I walked into the concert venue and showed the bouncer a ticket barcode on a three-inch, square screen.

“If it doesn’t go through, I can try something else,” I said quickly, worried that the barcode wouldn’t work. But just as Meadow founder Shreyas Narlanka promised me, the code I scanned onto the startup’s minimalist phone earlier that day worked fine.