The Simple Postcard

The Simple Postcard

Text a photo to mail it as a postcard

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Jason Strauss
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!
Seth Louey
@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.
Jason Strauss
@sethlouey Looks like Stripe had an issue with the card. Glad it worked now!
Greg Bilsland
@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)?
Jason Strauss
@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!
Sarthak Grover
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?
Jason Strauss
@sarthakgrover It's actually entirely automated!
Andreas Mitschke
@jastrauss @sarthakgrover Can you further elaborate on that? I'm really curious how you can automate a SMS 2 print service.
Jason Strauss
@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!
Andreas Mitschke
@jastrauss @sarthakgrover Ah twilio - nice. Thanks for the answer :)
Sarthak Grover
@andmitsch @jastrauss Good to know about Lob's API too. I know I had seen some API's from Walgreens Photo service too.
Jordan Nemrow
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/
Jason Strauss
@nemrow Looks cool! Will email.
Seb Dancer-Michel
Hey, really cool idea, I might send postcards again then ! Hope it lands in EU soon !
Jason Strauss
@far0s Thanks, should be in the EU in a few weeks!
Mickwho
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
Jason Strauss
@mickwho1 Cool, we'll support international in the next few weeks! I'll make sure to let you know when.
Mickwho
@jastrauss Sweet!!!
Anson Liang
Cool idea, but the logistics may be difficult to handle when it scales.
Jason Strauss
@ansonlyx The entire process is automated!
Jordan
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.
Jason Strauss
@inventitorfixit Hey! Thanks!
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