Show HN: I added a print edition to my indie blog

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5 points·philip1209··5 comments

What's old is new again. I wanted to share an experiment I built for my blog: a print edition, delivered to physical mailboxes.

This idea was inspired by Craig's "Between Two Mountains" pop-up. As those emails accumulated in my inbox, I wanted to print them out so I could carry them to a coffee shop. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I ended up building a printing system for my own site.

Sharing because I think it's a fun idea that I hope more blogs embrace. And, it's built on the YC company Lob.

Bookmarked! Excited to look into this and potentially subscribe this week.

Our coding meetups [0] are going increasingly offline and I'm looking for ways to exit the feed [1]. So I really want to learn from organizations like The Offline Club and now you.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups

[1] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/

Thanks for sharing!

Lob.com is a powerful tool - I think more people should experiment with it. I know Robin Sloan did an experiment a few years ago that used GPT-2 to send poetry to people via Lob mail. There's something so cool about APIs that create actions in the physical world.

That's really cool. Are you planning to print and send from the US, or do you have a service/company that does this for you?

I use https://lob.com - it's a YC co that offers an API for letter printing+mailing.

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