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

Posted by rcavezza on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:00PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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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Re:Ask HN: Text to Handwritten Letter Service - any interest? by dave1619 on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:11PM (#2328676)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: Text to Handwritten Letter Service - any interest? by rcavezza on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:23PM (#2328730)

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)

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Re:Ask HN: Text to Handwritten Letter Service - any interest? by Jcasc on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:12PM (#2328678)

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Text to Handwritten Letter Service - any interest? by rcavezza on Tuesday March 15, 2011 @02:23PM (#2328724)

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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