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Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by dinnison »

pryelluw wrote: post #10

Would be nice if your demo was front and center with an option to create your own after it plays. Also, maybe add a way to email myself a reminder to send a card. Might be a good option to those that would send one for birthdays but can’t do one now. Capturing their email as a reminder is a great way to sell this. Actually, this would be a great product to sell through email

Good idea making the example more prominent. Capturing email to send a reminder for birthday/etc is smart and nice way to have a "lead magnet" actually add value. thank you

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by slig »

First off, congrats on the launch! It looks really polished, and I'm definitely giving it a proper try tomorrow.

How do you plan to market this? From what I can tell, you're only left with about $3.50 (~$0.90 for Lob and ~$0.50 with Stripe), unless there's some kind of upsell after completing the flow that I missed.

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by dinnison »

dzink wrote: post #7

The opportunity for abuse with a similar product is too big. Giving someone your voice and the address of your loved ones means they can potentially mock it with AI send anything any other time, including requests for money. The volume of abusers of seniors will only get bigger.

That's a valid concern. There's definitely no voice cloning or information being sold from this app.

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by dinnison »

slig wrote: post #12

First off, congrats on the launch! It looks really polished, and I'm definitely giving it a proper try tomorrow. How do you plan to market this? From what I can tell, you're only left with about $3.50 (~$0.90 for Lob and ~$0.50 with Stripe), unless there's some kind of upsell after completing the flow that I missed.

Thanks! Yeah your margin calculations are roughly correct.

This is a fun side project built for myself, that I thought others might enjoy -- so maximizing revenue hasn't been a huge part of planning.

I plan to market this on traditional channels (Reddit, X, etc) and maybe test out some paid ads if the CAC is <$3.50 -- open to ideas!

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by AnonHP »

This is a nice idea. I just checked it out (not to really send a card though), and I got this error after entering the message and trying to go to the next page:

“Failed to save your card: TypeError: Load failed”

After entering the addresses (recipient and return), the next button seemed to reload the same page. Maybe it was showing some error temporarily? I had to tap on it about three or four times to get to the next page.

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by dinnison »

1cool wrote: post #6

Just sent one! It's a lovely idea. I think most people love getting postcards and the voice message is a nice surprise for the recipient. Two things. 1) The photo upload gets stuck on loading from the landing page. I think this is due to the file size? I uploaded the same photo from the actual page where you can customize the postcard and I was given a size limit warning. 2) I tried using a non-US address for both th…

Looks like it was just a display issue. Your card successfully saved both addresses and is queued for printing!

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by dinnison »

AnonHP wrote: post #15

This is a nice idea. I just checked it out (not to really send a card though), and I got this error after entering the message and trying to go to the next page: “Failed to save your card: TypeError: Load failed” After entering the addresses (recipient and return), the next button seemed to reload the same page. Maybe it was showing some error temporarily? I had to tap on it about three or four times to get to the ne…

Sorry you hit some bugs, I haven't seen these yet. Will look at the logs and try to see what's going on.

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by 1cool »

dinnison wrote: post #16
1cool wrote: post #6

Just sent one! It's a lovely idea. I think most people love getting postcards and the voice message is a nice surprise for the recipient. Two things. 1) The photo upload gets stuck on loading from the landing page. I think this is due to the file size? I uploaded the same photo from the actual page where you can customize the postcard and I was given a size limit warning. 2) I tried using a non-US address for both th…

Looks like it was just a display issue. Your card successfully saved both addresses and is queued for printing!

Good to know! Thanks!

The order detail page still shows Sending To as United States. Is this also a display issue?

Re: Show HN: Keeps – Mail a postcard that plays your voice

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Post by grues-dinner »

dzink wrote: post #7

The opportunity for abuse with a similar product is too big. Giving someone your voice and the address of your loved ones means they can potentially mock it with AI send anything any other time, including requests for money. The volume of abusers of seniors will only get bigger.

It's definitely an attack vector we'll be seeing more of. My bank uses voiceprints as a password, for example.

My bet is some of the big "we record this conversation for quality and training purposes" databases get stolen and deanonymised for a mass leak of millions of voiceprints.

I currently have a rule with my parents that only I'm allowed remote access to their computer of any kind. And if anyone else wants access they should ask me first. Maybe one day I'll have to add some "nuclear biscuit" pre-shared code cards to that.

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