I love the idea of emailing people with appreciation for things they've created.

I've considered doing this a few times, but have to admit I've never actually got round to sending people appreciative emails, maybe this blog post is the prompt I need.

There's a lot of makers on HN, has anyone here ever received emails about things they made?

I used to be fairly active on r/generative, someone once DM'd me to show me a pen-plot they'd made based off of something I'd made, and it made my whole week.