This is awesome, I always procrastinate buying holiday cards... but my friends (and investors / business contacts) really do love receiving them. @brandonjcarl what inspired you to build this?
How do you guys estimate prices? Is it possible to input a # of cards to get better estimates?
I can also see some interesting business uses for this (it's what I'd use this for), so just curious.
@ay_o Great question! We currently pull a base price through the affiliate programs, and then (with some magic) estimate the cost for around 50 cards (the typical household order).
We then layer on the most recent coupon codes. We're working on creating rough pricing models for larger orders (like your own). You'd input quantity, and we'd estimate price. Is there anything else you'd need for business?
@brandonjcarl i know @hal2001 was just telling me you had a couple crazy pivots. can you tell us about them? it might help makers building stuff to have hope when something goes awry :)
@eriktorenberg@hal2001 Sure thing!
So it goes...the main product my company offers revolves around automating wedding planning. We still haven't officially launched to the public, but we've had tens of thousands of guests entered. You can (unofficially) find out a lot more at http://www.hellowedding.com/free.
Our (wedding) users love how easy we make it to enter names and collect addresses. So as a bit of a side project, we adapted this to holiday cards a few weeks ago (a bigger market in many ways). After launching into beta, we found out that people buy holiday cards *before* they know how many they need, and collect addresses later. So over the course of a few days we ripped out the holiday card "store". Great Holiday Cards is the result! Next year we should be able to offer a more complete suite of services.
Openfolio
SendOvernightMail
Great Holiday Cards
Backchannel
Great Holiday Cards