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wrongcardstoday at 9:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

I've been running my side project - free ecards that are wrong for every occasion - (https://wrongcards.com) for eighteen years. I felt like the internet needed something like that, back in 2008. Back then, it was a tribute to the 90s era of terrible, awful ecards websites, about which I had become oddly nostalgic. It was also semi-intentionally a terrible idea from a SEO perspective (ecause, like, search engines aren't going to help anyone find what is ostensibly WRONG for every occasion) and I built the entire thing out of spite towards what I thought of as the 'new web'.

Now, almost 20 years later, I find I want to preserve something from the old days before it all looked like, well, gestures around wildly. It would be a relief not to maintain the site anymore. But I feel like I'd be disappointing a lot of people, as well. I have no idea how long I'm going to keep this going.


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senkotoday at 11:06 AM

I just spent 15 minutes I don't have, browsing your site and chuckling.

Thank you! :-)

(PS. maybe just freeze it so it's up but don't spend / spend minimal time on maintenance, if that's possible?)

(PPS. maybe integrate with some of those "send a postcard" sites so that people can also send actual physical cards using your designs? or buy them (high-res PDF for printing)

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ahaferburgtoday at 12:33 PM

Maybe you could try to find somebody to take over or help you maintain it?

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