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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9958498

by going_to_800 • 11 years ago

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Weekly motivational postcards stapled together and hang on your wall?

elmerfud• 11 years ago

With things like this there's no bad ideas only poor marketing of those ideas. Based on the way you phrased the question you may need to sell yourself on it first.

jacalata2• 11 years ago

Its not a very well described idea. Weekly as in by mail? Who is going to staple them together? Do they all arrive at once? Do you mean to just sell packets of postcards?

going_to_8003• 11 years ago

Yea like, sending a postcard each week by mail and you can staple them together once they arrive to create something like a chain or bigger card :)

S4M• 11 years ago

How about a very low end tablet that one would put on his/her wall and that would update itself each week with a different picture?

dquadraat3• 11 years ago

Technically that's not a postcard. I see a mail with maybe a sort of attachment in postcard form. But then I have to print it to get the physical card befor I can do anything with it. Be it stapling together with the other cards or directly sending it to someone. But why not email it then immediately i received it? Saves me lot of trouble.

dquadraat3• 11 years ago

I can see the motivational postcards, maybe even stapled together. But i don' t get why they have to hang on my wall? So I can see the motivation written on a frequent basis when say walking by? And then maybe think "Hey let me send this motivational postcard to someone I love" thinking this person could use this motivational postcard as an inspiration? And what is the difference (other then not being postcard) with those motivational calendars? They hang, stand or lay everywhere right? And what do you mean with Weekly?

going_to_8003• 11 years ago

They don't have to be hang on the wall, maybe only those you like the most. They also should be personalized, like with a monthly goal of yours.

Weekly I mean sent every week, like a service. The thing is, would people pay for this?

dquadraat3• 11 years ago

Your idea already has a great potential actually because of the item of motivational message. It's a very positive thing already. But we all know those static media (postcards,calendars,post its etc). Sending it over email it would lose power. If you indeed could personalize it in some sort of way. If I had something that could motivate me at the right moment then that thing would be very powerfull. It had to sense when to bring the motivation almost like a human. Yeah you could let me fill in a profile and based on that send "personalized" motivational messages. Maybe mix in some other data like what I have bought etc. But that s just a part of it. I'm thinking of a bracelet kind of thing. Like those fitness bracelets. Those can already send personalized messages based on the data they have gathered. But they are obviously (physical) health related. The motivational messaging I'm thinking about would be about maintaining,inspiring,supporting spiritual/mental health.

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