A birthday card that opens on their phone
Kindnotes is a digital birthday card you write in two minutes and send as one link. They open it on their phone: the envelope unseals, the note rises out, and your words appear line by line in a real hand. No app, no account, nothing to print.
Birthdays are the card most people mean to send and don't. The shop is closed, the post is too slow, and a text feels thin. A Kindnotes card is ready the moment you finish the sentence, and it is still there on the day after, at the same link.
It is not a template with your name pasted in. Every design was drawn and animated by hand, the writing is set in a handwriting face and fitted to the paper, and the note is the whole point: it is what they read twice.
The design for it
The envelope is the birthday card: a sealed letter with their name on the front, wax pressed with your initials. About the envelope.
How it works
1. Pick the design
The envelope, the polaroid or the locket. Each one is drawn and animated by hand.
2. Write the note
It sets itself in a handwriting hand and fits the paper. A photo and a voice note if you like.
3. Send one link
It opens on any phone, no app and no account. You keep an edit link; changes go live on theirs.
What to write
Start with one specific thing. Four ways in:
- The thing I never say out loud is
- Every year I get to know you a little better, and
- Here is what this year looked like from where I stood:
- You don't need a card to know this, but
Questions
- Can I send it on the day?
- Yes. There is nothing to ship. From the first word to a link in their hand is about three minutes, and it arrives the moment you send it, at midnight if you like.
- Can they keep it?
- The link keeps working. At the end of the card they can save it as an image, share it, or add it to their Home Screen, where it opens as its own little app.
- What if I want to change the note after sending?
- You can. Your edit link opens the same card; changes go live on the link they already have.
Other occasions
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