Carlos Eduardo Vásquez

Does anyone else miss the "Delayed Gratification" of a physical postcard? 📮

Hi Product Hunt community! 👋

I’m Carlos, a solo developer currently building a bridge between digital creativity and physical mail.

We live in an era of 'instant' everything—DMs, Slack pings, and notifications that vanish in seconds. But there’s something about a physical postcard that hits different. It’s a keepsake that usually ends up on a fridge or a desk for years, not just a few seconds on a screen.

I’ve spent the last few months engineering a 60-second loop that turns an AI prompt into a 300 DPI high-fidelity physical postcard delivered by the USPS. I’m also tackling the 'stranger danger' of the internet with a Privacy Shield—using my business address as the return sender so you can send mail to internet friends without revealing your home location.

I’m curious to hear from the makers here:

  1. When was the last time you received a piece of mail that wasn't a bill or junk?

  2. If you could send a physical 'thank you' or 'thinking of you' card to anyone in the world right now without leaving your desk, who would it be?

I'm officially launching v1.1 next Tuesday with full support for English, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese! I’d love to chat about the 'Physical Web' and how we can make the mailbox beautiful again. ✨

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