Show HN: Handwritten Cards – Send Cards Online in Your Own Unlegible Handwriting

[muc-martin]

Ever feel that online cards are too impersonal, while physical cards are such a hassle? I built a tool that combines the worst (and best) of both worlds: send handwritten cards online featuring your own delightfully unlegible scribbles. Now your receiver gets the unmistakable charm of your "unique" handwriting—ugly and all!

Here's an example card I made: https://www.handwritten-cards.de/cards/ff8d6fe46e62fe48773f3... Feel free to try it out!

[eszed]

Nifty!

As an idea for a paid product: I want to be able to print these out and mail them on actual paper. Let me define variables - maybe in the header row of a .csv file? Everyone can use Excel - and build messages that include them. Create some templates for envelopes and notepaper sizes.

If your tool can output something that'll look like handwriting on paper (fuzz stroke weights a bit? I dunno), then oh my goodness I'd be tempted to buy it for, like, a wedding thank you notes project.

I guess that's mildly evil, isn't it? Forget I suggested it.

[pentaphobe]

Love the idea (and the headline gave me a chuckle)

Might be worth including a privacy statement about the handling of people's handwriting (meta)data, ie. disposal, not selling or using it as training data (assuming that's the case of course!)

No idea how many people would care, but was the first thing I looked for (habit before I share new things with non-techy friends)

[muc-martin]

Glad you liked it! And good call on the privacy statement—that’s definitely something worth making clear.

- Images are only stored for processing and deleted afterward. - animations can be deleted by the user and are then also removed from the server - No data is sold or used for training.

Feel free to share! I’ll be adding this info to the landing page.