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Show HN: Cardly – a tiny card-first app to capture people's Gift Cards

2 points by Pastaza 10mo ago

Pastaza 10mo ago
I built Cardly — a minimal, card-first app for capturing people, notes, and follow-ups. It’s optimized for fast capture, low cognitive load, and repeating quick follow-ups. Private beta + waitlist open. Would love feedback from the HN community on the product, UX, and priorities. What it is Cardly treats each person/item as a “card” you can capture in <10s (name, short note, tags) and schedule follow-ups or snooze. Designed for makers, founders, recruiters, and anyone who needs a frictionless way to remember follow-ups without a full CRM. Think: the speed of a note + the structure of a mini-CRM. Why we built it Full CRMs are heavy for one-off or personal relationships. I kept losing threads after conferences and demo days. Cardly is what I wished existed: fast capture + simple follow-up workflows. Core features Capture a card in under 10 seconds (name, note, tags) Follow-up scheduling, snooze, and lightweight reminders Activity timeline per card (calls, notes, outreach attempts) Quick outreach templates / copy-to-clipboard snippets Tagging + fast search CSV export — you own your data What makes it different Minimal, card-first UX (no sales pipeline complexity) Optimized for capture speed and repeating small workflows Focus on being delightful for single users and indie teams Try it / join the waitlist Waitlist (private beta): https://www.cardlyai.app/join-waitlist Reply here with the workflow you want to test (e.g., recruiter outreach, investor follow-ups, community building) and I’ll try to invite a few people each day. What I’m asking from HN Would you use something like this? If not, why not? What one feature would make you sign up today? UX or pricing feedback welcome — I’m prioritizing a small set of high-value features for the first public launch. Roadmap highlights (what we’re considering next) Multi-device sync and a tiny web + mobile PWA Email/DM integrations (send and log) Shared/team cards for small teams Thanks for reading — I’ll be in the comments to answer questions and give early invites to folks with specific workflows to test.
- KomoD 10mo ago
  What's going on here? The site talks about tracking gift cards, you're talking about people, CRMs, personal relationships and keeping in touch with people?
KomoD 10mo ago
Who has so many gift cards that they need to pay $3-10/mo to keep track of them? Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

2 points by Pastaza 10mo ago

I built Cardly — a minimal, card-first app for capturing people, notes, and follow-ups. It’s optimized for fast capture, low cognitive load, and repeating quick follow-ups. Private beta + waitlist open. Would love feedback from the HN community on the product, UX, and priorities. What it is Cardly treats each person/item as a “card” you can capture in <10s (name, short note, tags) and schedule follow-ups or snooze. Designed for makers, founders, recruiters, and anyone who needs a frictionless way to remember follow-ups without a full CRM. Think: the speed of a note + the structure of a mini-CRM. Why we built it Full CRMs are heavy for one-off or personal relationships. I kept losing threads after conferences and demo days. Cardly is what I wished existed: fast capture + simple follow-up workflows. Core features Capture a card in under 10 seconds (name, note, tags) Follow-up scheduling, snooze, and lightweight reminders Activity timeline per card (calls, notes, outreach attempts) Quick outreach templates / copy-to-clipboard snippets Tagging + fast search CSV export — you own your data What makes it different Minimal, card-first UX (no sales pipeline complexity) Optimized for capture speed and repeating small workflows Focus on being delightful for single users and indie teams Try it / join the waitlist Waitlist (private beta): https://www.cardlyai.app/join-waitlist Reply here with the workflow you want to test (e.g., recruiter outreach, investor follow-ups, community building) and I’ll try to invite a few people each day. What I’m asking from HN Would you use something like this? If not, why not? What one feature would make you sign up today? UX or pricing feedback welcome — I’m prioritizing a small set of high-value features for the first public launch. Roadmap highlights (what we’re considering next) Multi-device sync and a tiny web + mobile PWA Email/DM integrations (send and log) Shared/team cards for small teams Thanks for reading — I’ll be in the comments to answer questions and give early invites to folks with specific workflows to test.

KomoD 10mo ago
What's going on here? The site talks about tracking gift cards, you're talking about people, CRMs, personal relationships and keeping in touch with people?

KomoD 10mo ago

Who has so many gift cards that they need to pay $3-10/mo to keep track of them? Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html > Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.