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Hello! We've been working on Cardybot for some months and are excited to share it! Send fun, personalized, and physical birthday cards to your co-workers with
by dammyX 7y ago
Hello! We've been working on Cardybot for some months and are excited to share it!
Send fun, personalized, and physical birthday cards to your co-workers with ease. All organized and mailed automatically through Slack. Great for remote teams or teams that just want to send birthday cards that co-workers will cherish forever.
The story: I started my career in a non-remote company where (like many other teams) we signed birthday cards for co-workers. Unlike most other birthday perks it was actually fun and personalized. But my last couple of roles have been on remote teams so it's been impossible to do cards like that. While I love working remotely, I wish we still did birthday cards and our early customers agree - that's why Cardybot was created. As a Slack integration, we take the fun in this for all teams (remote and non-remote) to the next level .
When we started building Cardybot, we (off course) had no idea we would be launching during a pandemic but I hope this brings some fun and engagement to your team during this tough time.
We'd love to get some feedback and are happy to answer questions!
- masukomi 7y agoit's a cool idea. a) i'd use a handwritten font and semi-randomized angles to make it look more real. b) PLEASE don't send me yet another thing i have to sterilize before bringing in my house. Countless (literally can't be counted) people are involved in the mailing, sorting and delivery of mail and all of them are potential Covid-19 carriers. Lacking an autoclave i can't really sterilize paper without getting it wet and that sucks for a birthday card. I'd read it with gloves on the porch, and then immediately trash it.... and most folks don't have disposable gloves.
- dammyX 7y ago- Thanks for the feedback on fonts! - The good news is the cards come in an envelope. So you can be sure no one has touched the card during the shipping period (which is more than enough time for the virus to cease on paper according to https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/health/coronavirus-mail-packages.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/health/coronavirus-mail-p...)
- nicoburns 7y ago> most folks don't have disposable gloves. Why not just read it without gloves, and then wash your hands afterwards?
- markdown 7y agoOr just don't touch it until it's been untouched for four days.
- si1entstill 7y agoNice - this is a great idea! How hard would it be to add support for other kinds of cards? We typically do "welcome" cards for new hires, but (as we are now all working from home) that has recently become difficult.
- dammyX 7y agoThanks for the feedback! Supporting other cards is definitely a high prio feature for us