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Good time to have this but how is this different from services like Postable? We just used it to mail out 100 postcards for the holidays.
by hbcondo714 7y ago
Good time to have this but how is this different from services like Postable? We just used it to mail out 100 postcards for the holidays.
- toomuchtodo 7y agoWhat was the cost per card if you don’t mind me asking?
- derwiki 7y agoRight now, it's not much different than Postable or any number of similar services. Except they can send internationally and this service cannot :) Based on the number of similar services, this doesn't seem like a winner-take-all market. But I would be very interested to hear your thoughts: how you chose Postable from competitors, what you like about them, don't like, etc. A little extra context: when I first built this, it used the Instagram API to automatically mail postcards to my mother when I uploaded a new photo. Shortly after building it, Instagram changed their API and I was unable to get high enough resolution photos for postcards, so I "pivoted" it to the current product. How is it different in the future? I think I can win on price-- it looks like Postable is $2.49 low volume and $1.00 at volume. Based on my costs, I can do $1.00 or lower with low volume.
- hbcondo714 7y agoI think it would be nice to have an address book feature. This is what led us back to Postable, we had used them a couple years ago for mailing thank you cards which involved uploading our addresses to their address book. Overall, their post card design templates appealed most to us.
- derwiki 7y agoThanks for the feedback! If you'd be willing to chat a little more, I'd love to connect: adam@der.wiki
- hbcondo714 7y agoAnother nice to have may be the ability to track the card. When we purchased our order on Postable, the order status displayed as "Sent" which is kind of generic. We don't know which of our recipients actually received the card.