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5 points philip1209 | 1 comments | 10 Dec 25 18:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | source

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philip1209 ◴[10 Dec 25 18:42 UTC] No.46221665[source]▶

What's old is new again. I wanted to share an experiment I built for my blog: a print edition, delivered to physical mailboxes.

This idea was inspired by Craig's "Between Two Mountains" pop-up. As those emails accumulated in my inbox, I wanted to print them out so I could carry them to a coffee shop. That sent me down a rabbit hole, and I ended up building a printing system for my own site.

Sharing because I think it's a fun idea that I hope more blogs embrace. And, it's built on the YC company Lob.

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abnercoimbre ◴[10 Dec 25 18:47 UTC] No.46221750[source]▶

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Bookmarked! Excited to look into this and potentially subscribe this week.

Our coding meetups [0] are going increasingly offline and I'm looking for ways to exit the feed [1]. So I really want to learn from organizations like The Offline Club and now you.

[0] https://handmadecities.com/meetups

[1] https://abner.page/post/exit-the-feed/

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1. philip1209 ◴[10 Dec 25 19:42 UTC] No.46222611[source]▶

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Thanks for sharing!

Lob.com is a powerful tool - I think more people should experiment with it. I know Robin Sloan did an experiment a few years ago that used GPT-2 to send poetry to people via Lob mail. There's something so cool about APIs that create actions in the physical world.

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