Cardsy

Real cards designed by real artists, delivered to your door

3 followers

Real cards designed by real artists, delivered to your door

3 followers

Cardsy makes greeting card buying a little more fun and a lot more thoughtful. We collaborate with artists to create every single greeting card featured on Cardsy—and we share a portion of the profit directly with the artist.

Launch tags:E-Commerce

Launch Team

Framer AI AgentsDesign and publish professional sites with AI

Promoted

Cardsy

Maker

Hey everyone, Phil from Cardsy—I'm excited to be here! Thanks @hnshah for hunting us. Cardsy is an ecomm greeting card shop that collaborates with a rotating set of artists to create awesome greeting cards for life's important moments. Why Artists? Artists have a pretty good knack for bringing emotions to life. Whether its joy, support, or a good laugh, art can communicate what we feel but can’t quite put into words. With each card sold, we share profits directly with the artist who designed it. Through talking with a lot of folks, there's a familiar experience most of us have: An important day has arrived—your partner’s birthday or a good friend's wedding. You're getting ready and it hits you... you forgot to buy a card. In a last-minute rush, you swing by the store, pick-up a hallmark card, and scribble a note right as you arrive. You tell yourself you'll remember to pick up a better one next time. I've always found that the best part of giving or receiving a gift is a thoughtful note that goes along with it. But the card is the part we often forget. We're building Cardsy to change that. The ecomm shop is v1. Up next, we're thinking about building a product that ingests the dates of all your important occasions (anniversaries, birthdays, etc.) and delivers the perfect card to your doorstep a week before the moment. After some initial traction, we'll start putting more energy here. Take a look at the site and let us know what you think! Open to any feedback and happy to answer any questions. Thanks for checking out Cardsy!

Report

6yr ago

Conduit

IMHO I think most of the concerns here is the $30 moq, but I would not agree (again this is my opinion), but rather a bold move. One reason for this is that these are not the average cards you'll find in stores, it kind of reminds me back in the days they used to have these kiosks that draw real time, cards, and print them out. These were more expensive due to the fact that they were showing us the process, even though it was still generic, but the satisfaction of watching a robot hand drawing the cards was superb! Now what about building a community around the designers, let them have a profile so they can actually let customers see their designs on cards, maybe you like a specific graphic style from a particular designer, and you would like to keep buying these from that designer alone? Giving artists more exposure. My 2 cents :)

Report

6yr ago

Cardsy

Maker

@antonio_bologna replied above but wanted to add that this is great direction for our social content, where we can share more from them and link to their personal IGs where they share their own progress.

Report

6yr ago

I'm not really sure how this is a new concept? There's a few places that do similar things these days, but this feels like you're trying to rip off Cardly, and the name similarity isn't doing any favours here. Their offering is similar - independent artists, they get a commission based on sales, though there's no minimum spend, it seems cheaper overall as shipping is included, and they ship to more locations. You can also put a message and drawings in the cards you select and send directly to someone as well. They've been around for years too, I remember them being on Shark Tank back in 2017. Maybe you can highlight how you're different and what the deal is with the name similarity?

Report

6yr ago

NBCUniversal Checkout

This is a great idea - the greeting card industry is bloated and lazy with incredible margins (my first job ever was at American Greetings so I can speak from some experience). However I gotta agree with the above challenge that the $30 minimum purchase amount is steep. If you could deliver greeting cards that are 10x better than those at the store (beautiful, niche, highly customized, etc), without someone ever having to leave the house, with pre-scheduled delivery, for half the price - you’d take the market.

Report

6yr ago

Cardsy

Maker

@evomoore Thanks Evan! Great points here. We hear you on the $30 minimum. The intention was to have a higher min, and offer free shipping on all orders. I've taken your feedback and removed the $30 minimum and instead added a shipping fee for all orders under $30 (while keeping shipping free for orders over $30). I'm confident the cards are 10x better. Pre-scheduled delivery on the roadmap. Thanks for your feedback. Ps. Made a PH promo code: PRODUCTHUNT10

Report

6yr ago

Bubbles

Really nice idea helping artists :) Thought I'd leave some feedback on your landing page here too, as its very visually appealing but there are also maybe some changes you can make to abide by ecommerce best practices, hope it helps! https://app.usebubbles.com/968cb...

Report

6yr ago

Cardsy

Maker

@tom4 Thanks for taking the time to leave that detailed feedback, Tom! We agree - some awesome product shots are in store for the hero banner :)

Report

6yr ago

This is great! I'm all for artist supporting artist! IMHO you've done the right thing by adding the free shipping to orders $30+ and charging shipping for under $30.

Report

6yr ago

Cardsy

Maker

@thomas_evans3 Thanks! The model really excites us too. Appreciate the support.

Report

6yr ago