postcards.lekevicius.com
Consumer and social
greeting cards
SHOW HN2013
postcards.lekevicius.com
I make my family postcards every year. Here's this year's.
postcards.lekevicius.com#online postcards#christmas cards#canvas drawing#family cards
How HN took it
5 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score +0.09.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Simple and intuitive
From 2 comments
This is excellent. Extremely simple and fairly intuitive, I wish I had heard about it days sooner. It's somewhat surprising to continuously encounter such (seemingly) simple…
tannerc on HNVery nice.
gorhill on HN
Funny gallery
From 2 comments
The gallery has my chuckling really hard
TallboyOne on HNMy pre-click expectations were fully met.
amcnett on HN
Objections
Does not work well on tablets or mobile without a space bar
From 2 comments
Doesn't work in Chrome on a tablet. Start drawing zoomed to some a flipped view of the backside and there is no space bar to tap without a text field. Hacks for desktop only is…
ryanwatkins on HNIt works on mobile, but please add an on page button to clear card, since I don't have a space bar.
judk on HN
Instructions disappear in Firefox
From 2 comments
Nice site! It seems like the initial instructions don't show up in Firefox though. The drawing still works.
kevining on HNSame here, in Firefox the instructions disappeared on load. Had to experiment to see what it did. Cool otherwise.
51Cards on HN
Mouse-up events dropped in IE 11
From 1 comment
Drops mouse=up event sometimes...IE 11.0.9600
JoeAltmaier on HN
Requests
Add an on-page clear button
From 1 comment
It works on mobile, but please add an on page button to clear card, since I don't have a space bar.
judk on HN
Write up how it was built
From 3 comments
Very nice. You should either open-source it or do a write up on how you made it. As a newbie to web development, I'd love to read it.
eugmill on HNThis is excellent. Extremely simple and fairly intuitive, I wish I had heard about it days sooner. It's somewhat surprising to continuously encounter such (seemingly) simple…
tannerc on HNbeautiful work! would love a breakdown on how you built this (I made a postcard app a few years back picsicle.com)
frankdenbow on HN
Questions
Is it a postcard or a Christmas card
From 2 comments
Isn't this a family Christmas card, rather than a postcard? Isn't a postcard something you send back from a vacation?
charlesgarson on HNNo, a postcard is a very specific type of mail, which can have any image you desire on the other side (vacation, Christmas, save the date, etc). The key characteristics of a…
jinushaun on HN
Alternatives named
Spirograph
From 1 comment
This reminds me so much of a toy I had when I was a kid, with a catchy commercial... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph commercial…
aestra on HN
Picsicle
From 1 comment
beautiful work! would love a breakdown on how you built this (I made a postcard app a few years back picsicle.com)
frankdenbow on HN