Does anywhere include countries that the USA has embargos (Cuba) with?
Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
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Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#52There's somehow a contradiction between the service you're offering and the name of the service. Postcard BOT feels impersonal, cold and automated, while you associate a postcard with something warm, handwritten, personal. There's a risk that your target market (postcard lovers) might get turned off by the name (bot).
I tend to kindly disagree - while what you say is true for the people who love to write and receive postcards - this service is perfect for lazy people like me. The real postcard lovers will still want to buy the real thing and hand-write the message on there and probably wouldn't consider this kind of service either way.
Postcards without handwriting are just email.
I'm not even a postcard lover, I send maybe one a year, but the one I will send is going to be personal. All the personality and expressiveness that you give to a written postcard is lost once you use a font. Even a really really nice one.
Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#53This isn't a new Show HN since you've posted this before[1] with the domain postacard.io. What's changed since then? [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12427505
Well, there is a penny difference in the title. A holiday discount?
Do you seriously need a discount on something that costs $2.99?
Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#54Sending a physical postcard from a mobile phone is a standardised activity: https://www.nowsms.com/oma-mms-postcard-conformance
The end user (my mother, sister etc.) definately wouldn't know that. I remember when Youtube came out, and all the nerds said "I could write that easily, not that big a deal". This is why knowing who your customer is (and what problem you're trying to solve) is essential.
There was a load of publicity ~a decade ago about this, with lots of mobile operators pushing the service. They did do the marketing, but MMS was the success we know it was(!), cameras in phones weren't top notch, and the service was used once only by lots of people who have now forgotten all about it...
Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#55Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I tend to kindly disagree - while what you say is true for the people who love to write and receive postcards - this service is perfect for lazy people like me. The real postcard lovers will still want to buy the real thing and hand-write the message on there and probably wouldn't consider this kind of service either way.
Postcards without handwriting are just email. I'm not even a postcard lover, I send maybe one a year, but the one I will send is going to be personal. All the personality and expressiveness that you give to a written postcard is lost once you use a font. Even a really really nice one.
"The real postcard lovers will still want to buy the real thing"
Sounds like you are in that group.
Re: Show HN: Send a Custom Postcard to Anywhere, from Your Phone, for $2.99
#57I worked on a few postcard apps about 5 years ago, for my experiments the economics were very difficult unless a) you charged a lot b) of recurring revenue c) for a niche. I gave up even when I found a viable model because I didn't want to spent the next 5 years working on this, thought I could make a lifestyle business but I think to be successful here you have to move a lot of postcards and that takes marketing mus…
Thanks for the input. I don't intend on putting in full time work on this (maybe just a couple hours a week). It's a side project and will remain as such indefinitely.
I actually built it solely for myself to use when I travel, and I thought it would be fun to build.