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Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by gaganpalrecha »

drpancake wrote: post #20

This is a slight tangent, but my dream service - and sadly I'm only half joking - would be: * Enter in a list of all those family members I'm obliged to send birthday and Christmas cards to, including some basic demographic info * Upload an image of my handwriting * I'm reminded at the appropriate times to pick from a filtered selection of cards and enter a personalised message * Printed & sent (bonus points: handwri…

haha, everything you just said is already in development! great minds think alike :)

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by pasbesoin »

gaganpalrecha wrote: post #21
drpancake wrote: post #20

This is a slight tangent, but my dream service - and sadly I'm only half joking - would be: * Enter in a list of all those family members I'm obliged to send birthday and Christmas cards to, including some basic demographic info * Upload an image of my handwriting * I'm reminded at the appropriate times to pick from a filtered selection of cards and enter a personalised message * Printed & sent (bonus points: handwri…

haha, everything you just said is already in development! great minds think alike :)

Possible variant: Accept a picture/image of a handwritten message, and apply it (cleanly) to the card / piece to be mailed.

EDIT: I'm thinking of e.g. an image from a cell phone, if you can get sufficient quality. Not something that becomes significant effort for the user. Bonus points if, or necessary that it looks (fairly well) handwritten.

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by adityakothadiya »

drpancake wrote: post #20

This is a slight tangent, but my dream service - and sadly I'm only half joking - would be: * Enter in a list of all those family members I'm obliged to send birthday and Christmas cards to, including some basic demographic info * Upload an image of my handwriting * I'm reminded at the appropriate times to pick from a filtered selection of cards and enter a personalised message * Printed & sent (bonus points: handwri…

Try http://tinyprints.com or http://minted.com

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by frossie »

drpancake wrote: post #20

This is a slight tangent, but my dream service - and sadly I'm only half joking - would be: * Enter in a list of all those family members I'm obliged to send birthday and Christmas cards to, including some basic demographic info * Upload an image of my handwriting * I'm reminded at the appropriate times to pick from a filtered selection of cards and enter a personalised message * Printed & sent (bonus points: handwri…

Printed & sent

That's the big thing I see missing here. "Having it sent" is the goal of the game. Otherwise I might as well snap a personal photo and send it with Postino (which is how I am doing things now - and unscientific sampling shows that is much more likely to stay on somebody's fridge long after the event is past).

Still, wrapping paper has some potential, especially if they offer good quality paper, which Hallmark/Walmart/whatever don't seem to carry much.

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by adityakothadiya »

gaganpalrecha wrote: post #6
swombat wrote: post #3

So, that's like http://moonpig.com then? What do they do differently? Edit: Nevermind, answered it myself. Chirply does all paper goods, whereas moonpig only does cards, flowers, gifts, and bottles.

and it's crowd-sourced design, so the designs are better. Whereas moonpig is mostly about customized text.

Probably the more appropriate question is - how it's different than http://minted.com? I know TinyPrints is not crowd-sourced, but Minted is.

Please note, I'm not trying to demean your service or existence by any means, but just trying to learn how you're distinguishing and plan to compete with this super growing startups?

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by prawn »

The link, in case people try .ly first: http://www.chirply.com/

A few things I noticed:

  - front page looks very different from the voting index, as though they're very different sites
  - front page lacks focus
  - index mentions tacky greeting cards but only shows blank white line-art empty cards rather than actual examples/previews (even if they're not real yet). I'd cut back (or shrink) the front page text and put some designs to vote on there too.
Hopefully the front page is just temporary until winning designs are chosen because all the best stuff is hidden behind it.

Related: Someone should collate "Threadless for x" and FML clone sites so people can see what openings are still available in the market.

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by catshirt »

prawn wrote: post #28

The link, in case people try .ly first: http://www.chirply.com/ A few things I noticed: - front page looks very different from the voting index, as though they're very different sites - front page lacks focus - index mentions tacky greeting cards but only shows blank white line-art empty cards rather than actual examples/previews (even if they're not real yet). I'd cut back (or shrink) the front page text and put som…

i actually owned the domain chirp.ly back in the day. got an inquiry of purchase sometime that would fall in line with the conception of this company. though lost contact with the inquirer.

possible it wasn't the yc company, but i only bring it up because i've seen this happen several times on hn and hey, small world.

Re: Chirply (YC S10) is Threadless for Paper Goods

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Post by MisterMerkin »

gkoberger wrote: post #27

The logo, sketch-y theme and use of birds and clouds is strikingly similar to the Chirp conference website. http://www.chirply.com/ http://chirp.twitter.com/

I dare you to make a logo for any org with the name chirp at the root of its name with anything other than a bird.
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