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PostalAgent - https://PostalAgent.com – direct mail automation for people who've given up on email open rates.

Email averages ~20% open rates on a good day. A postcard sitting on someone's kitchen counter for two weeks is hard to compete with. I've been building out the programmatic side. API, Zapier, and native integrations with Jobber and Zoho so you can trigger physical mail from the same workflows you already use for email.

Shopify integration is almost out the door too, which opens up a lot of interesting abandoned cart and win-back use cases for stores whose customers have opted out of email.

No bulk minimums, no design software needed. If anyone here wants to give it a try, reply or email me and I'll set you up with some free credits to get started.

https://PostalAgent.com – Send personalized postcards online.

Upload a CSV or circle neighborhoods on Google Maps to build your address list (consumers or businesses). Printing and postage included in one price.

In the last 30 days I've added integrations for Zapier and Jobber (after adding Pipedrive, Zoho, and Follow Up Boss last month).

If anyone wants to help test these new integrations, I'll set you up on a special plan and let you send mail at my cost (roughly the price of a stamp)

https://PostalAgent.com – Send personalized postcards online.

Upload a CSV or circle neighborhoods on Google Maps to build your address list (consumers or businesses). Printing and postage included in one price.

In the last 30 days I've added an API plus integrations for Pipedrive, Zoho, and Follow Up Boss. If anyone wants to help test these new integrations, I'll set you up on a special plan and let you send mail at my cost (roughly the price of a stamp).

I just purchased a Beelink Mini S13 with 16GB ram and 1TB drive on Amazon for ~$200 to use as a Docker host on my local network and have been very happy with it so far.

I immediately wiped it and installed Ubuntu Server. I chose Coolify to manage Docker and local domains, and that took a bit of work to get going, but now I can spin up local services and containers on local domains and play with random stuff

Yes! You can send to an entire area, filter by residential/business or even select demographics such as home value, household income, etc

Send Postcards online by circling houses on a Google Map:

https://postalagent.com

I'm currently adding support for letters in addition to Postcards

No, no minimum - send a single postcard if you want!

I launched https://PostalAgent.com recently that solves a similar problem.

It also can be used for Marketing because you can circle areas on a Google Map to send mailings to, and then filter by Household income, home value, etc

Ping me if you want to chat

Recent discussion: Smuggling arbitrary data through an emoji https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43023508

It still forces you to download a model regardless

An option to use a local LLM on network without needing to download the 2GB "default model" would be great

Location: MI

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, JS, MySQL, AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS), Serverless Architecture, AI enhancements, Automated Testing, REST API Design

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/HNresumee

Email: see resume link

Sr Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in SaaS and e-commerce. I have been working with Laravel since v3 and really enjoy the ecosystem. See linked resume for more details. Open to part time as well

I run a few side projects using Laravel:

https://PostalAgent.com - Send Postcards Online

https://CheckAnyVin.com - Vehicle history reports

The data comes from a few different sources, like MelissaData.

Thanks for noticing the broken link, I fixed it

https://postalagent.com is my side project that lets you building mailing lists and send postcards online

https://checkanyvin.com is a slightly older project that lets you run vehicle history reports cheaper than other services

This is amazing, nice work. Definitely one of the better starter kits I have seen.

Location: MI

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: PHP, Laravel, JS, MySQL, AWS (Lambda, EC2, RDS), Serverless Architecture, AI enhancements, Automated Testing, REST API Design

Résumé/CV: https://tinyurl.com/HNresumee

Email: see resume link

Sr Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in SaaS and e-commerce. I have been working with Laravel since v3 and really enjoy the ecosystem. See linked resume for more details

Thank you for the feedback. There are more demographic filters coming too, as well as additional lists like "new movers" or "new homeowners"

There is a demo that doesn't require a signup that would let you fully test the product

Yes actually, saving our planets resources is exactly why I built this service.

Direct Mail is never going away, so a service like this that lets you target your delivery using multiple consumer demographics allows you to send significantly less mail than other services that deliver mail to every single house.

This isn't a product used for "saturation" type mailings, it's used to refine and target your ideal customer and send less mail but with a bigger impact

Additionally, every postcard is made from responsibly sourced and recycled paper

I'm glad you understand and support the vision

I paid a hefty setup fee

It's not misleading at all, that is exactly what a USPS postcard stamp costs.

It's not fair to compare this to EDDM. The whole point of my site is so you dont have to mail to "every single door".

For example, I have 2 landscapers using my service and they target based on home value because they know most of their clients live in houses > $xxx. They also exclude renters because nearly all of their clients are homeowners. If they were using EDDM they might pay a bit less per postcard, but they would be sending to houses that will never signup for their service, so the actual CPA is higher

You mention "printing adds a bit of cost" but if you look around you will see that it adds quite a bit of cost. It depends on how many pieces you are sending but it could be .25 cents or .40 cents for 500-1000, or more -- but you have to send to an entire route, where you can send to a single house with my service.

Also, with EDDM you either have to batch your mailings per route, and deliver them to specific locations for USPS distribution, or pay extra for a print house to do that for you

There are several occupant APIs that let you do this

Yes, I use an API to print and mail. There are a few of them available

Yes, exactly! I am hoping some restaurants will signup because they can really control their marketing spend by only mailing to people they deliver to. Although with Uber Eats does anybody order direct anymore?

I'd love that, shoot me a message from the contact page and let's get in touch

No, just Google Maps

I use MelissaData and a few other similar APIs that are available

Are you outside North America and possibly getting a captcha from CF? Looking into it now, sorry

Sorry about that, I had an issue with Cloudflare and had to purge the cache, does it work for you now?

Thank you. It's built using Laravel and I am using a Javascript canvas editor for the designer