The Simple Postcard: Text a photo to mail it as a postcard

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Hi PH! I wanted an easy way to send postcards, so, over a few weekends I built The Simple Postcard. Send a postcard by text message! To get started, just text a photo to 251 265 2848. (My girlfriend made the website look good!) Let me know what you think!

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10yr ago

Operation Pie

@jastrauss tried to scan my CC and entered the payment only to get a 500 error. EDIT: Must have been a hiccup because it went through the second time.

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10yr ago

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@sethlouey Looks like Stripe had an issue with the card. Glad it worked now!

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10yr ago

@jastrauss Very cool product, Jason. Added the number to my address book. Are you hoping to integrate payment into cell phone bill or a Paypal login to avoid having to type credit card into mobile (which is kind of a pain)?

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10yr ago

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@gregbilsland Select "Remember me" on checkout, so you don't have type in the cc info every time! I haven't found an easy way to charge via the cellphone bill. I will likely add Paypal soon!

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10yr ago

This looks awesome! How much 'manual' work is involved on your end at the end of someone placing an order? If you received 10k orders one fine day, would you be able to scale this up using an API?

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10yr ago

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@sarthakgrover It's actually entirely automated!

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10yr ago

@jastrauss @sarthakgrover Can you further elaborate on that? I'm really curious how you can automate a SMS 2 print service.

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10yr ago

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@andmitsch @sarthakgrover The texting is done via Twilio. They actually wrote about The Simple Postcard on their engineering blog! https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016... The printing is done via Lob's printing API!

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10yr ago

@jastrauss @sarthakgrover Ah twilio - nice. Thanks for the answer :)

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10yr ago

@andmitsch @jastrauss Good to know about Lob's API too. I know I had seen some API's from Walgreens Photo service too.

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10yr ago

I really like the idea. People love receiving postcards. I did a vid on my channel 3 weeks ago about sending postcards to people and sent more than 50 I wrote myself. 10 different countries. Do you think you could get this international? Because I want to keep doing that in my vids but sending my own pics. Here's a link to the vid: http://bit.ly/2a2NHwr

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10yr ago

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@mickwho1 Cool, we'll support international in the next few weeks! I'll make sure to let you know when.

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10yr ago

@jastrauss Sweet!!!

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10yr ago

I launched a very similar product a few years ago. I'd love to share our challenges with you. nemrowj at gmail. Shoot me an email. This was our app: http://www.pigeonpic.com/

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10yr ago

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@nemrow Looks cool! Will email.

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10yr ago

Is this the greatest product of all time? Yes. Very sorry to all other Product makers out there, good luck competing for second place.

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5yr ago

Scout

And another postcard product (mine). Sendwithscout dot com. Jason and I are good friends and The Simple Postcard is awesome! Use it, it's super reliable.

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10yr ago

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@inventitorfixit Hey! Thanks!

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10yr ago

Hey, really cool idea, I might send postcards again then ! Hope it lands in EU soon !

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10yr ago

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@far0s Thanks, should be in the EU in a few weeks!

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10yr ago