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Show HN: TinyCard – A minimalistic & functional e-Card site, like tinyletter

4 points| szemy2 | 4 days ago |tinycard.app

My brother just had his 39th birthday and as we live in different cities I sent a present to him directly from the shop (it was a gym bag for those who are curious).

The shop didn't let me add a postcard or anything personal to the package so I went looking for an easy/fast eCard service that I considered aesthetically pleasing.

It was a very frustrating search. I thought of creating it with Figma but didn't feel like spending more time building a postcard design (also I wanted it to open in a cool way!!). So I created an app :D (cue Rick & Morty "lets-build-an-app" guy)

This was created with the sentiment how tinyletter (RIP) offered a functional/minimal solution to bloated software.

2 comments

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brightbed|2 days ago

Lovely!

It’d be nice if it wasn’t specific to a “gift” maybe, but no big deal.

Would be fun is the image could be a GIF.

Maybe the photo credit and expiration could be below the fold (have to scroll) so the card gets more room on a small mobile screen? :shrug:

Nicely done

szemy2|4 days ago

Any bug report/improvement is welcome