Ask HN: Text to Handwritten Letter Service - any interest?

2 pointsrcavezza4 comments

I thought it was interesting that I couldn't find this anywhere. It's kind of a hassle sometimes to get stamps, write a letter, and send it in the mailbox. I thought it'd be cool to have a text to handwritten letter service.

Idk, maybe charge $5-$10 to write a letter and send it in the mail. What do you guys think? Viable?

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No, if I want to send a handwritten note I want it to look like my handwriting. Maybe you can invent a font-creation web app that analyzes my handwriting and creates a font for it.

Yeah, I hear you. Reminds me of Keith Ferrazzi's Holiday card fiasco. Someone got three different holiday cards from him and they all had different signatures, lol. (From Never Eat Alone)

How would you scale something like this?

$5-$10 to write and send a letter is a bit steep considering a stamp costs $0.44. I understand the value of convenience, but that much mark up?

Not really sure how to scale it except to have different people making a few extra bucks writing letters around the country - crowdsourcing type of thing w/o any specialized knowledge.

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