Show HN: Letter from You – Handwritten letter, mailed for you

Post by throwaway13000 » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 6:00 PM UTC

Post by anthonylee » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 7:36 PM UTC

dugluak wrote: post #3

Reminds me of stories about "letter writers" sitting outside post offices in rural India. Only difference is that some customers couldn't write and some couldn't even read. One feature you guys can pull from that is allow users to provide a gist of what needs to be in the message and you guys come up with actual message. Some people like me lack the skill of coming up with beautiful words ;)

Post by throwaway13000 » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 8:35 PM UTC

anthonylee wrote: post #5

throwaway13000 wrote: post #2

I don't understand one thing. The customers know that companies are here just to make money. Then why do they think the letter is coming from the heart? Why don't they think it is some marketing guy's ploy to extract little more value/money?

I see your point, I think from a different angel— it depends on your use cases and how much time you want to save.

Post by robofanatic » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 9:07 PM UTC

asdkhadsj wrote: post #7

This is neat! I'm not sure I have a real use for it - but if it was cheaper I'd use it a few times just for fun. I wonder if they would send me a letter of a long, encoded string? Imagine ~300 characters of hand written hex encoded bytes, framed on your wall. .. man, I kind of want that. The question is, would they write that?

Post by anthonylee » Mon, Apr 22, 2019, 10:02 PM UTC

throwaway13000 wrote: post #6

anthonylee wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see your point, I think from a different angel— it depends on your use cases and how much time you want to save.

Mind elaborating some of those use cases?