👋 I built a fun way to build meaningful connection with friends and family. All over email, no apps!
TLDR; If you want regular, more meaningful communication with the most important people in your life, I created a tool that lets you have your own group newsletter. Get early access, it's free! 👉 www.letterloop.co
👋 Hey Indie Hackers! A lot of us here love newsletters. We all know from the previous Trends report that newsletters are taking off. Email is undergoing a renaissance as a way to consume content we care about.
So I asked myself, where are the missing gaps? What content areas are we still missing? I realized there’s a huge white space around friends and family. There’s no newsletter in your inbox covering the lives of the most important people in your life.
I read my favorite newsletters because it’s the easiest and most thoughtful way for me to digest business topics. I realized I wanted that same experience from my close friends and families. How can I easily, regularly know what’s going on and what matters most in their lives?
So, I built Letterloop. It’s an easy way for you to have your own group newsletter with close family and friends. (P.S. It’s free!)
How it works:
- Pick inquisitive questions: Choose from dozens of thoughtful questions or add your own.
- Invite your inner circle: Just email, no apps. Add your people and we'll take care of the rest.
- Share an experience: Get everyone's bite-sized stories in a fun and beautiful email, ready for reply-all.
I’ve been quietly testing the product for the last few months and am just now opening it up for early access. I’m launching this here in Trends, where the idea was inspired. I wanted to put you all at the front of the line!
Feel free to comment or DM if you have any questions or thoughts.
Get early access, it's free! 👉 www.letterloop.co
The illustrations are so cute.
@heli_naik Thanks! Share with a friend to support!
I shared it on the product hunt platform - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/latter-loop
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Design's nice and refreshing . Hate seeing the regular blue/purple combo
@shashark Thank you! Yeah right? Definitely tired of that tech trend as well.
Great Idea and I love your landing page.
Thank you! @itsbalal
awesome idea, landing page is really well implemented, love it 🚀
Appreciate it, hope you try it out with your favorite people!
Love the landing
Thanks @Davidbensemoun30!
What a wonderful idea. Can I ask, how did you go about validating the market need for this concept of slow and thoughtful?
It's the very antithesis of so much marketing online today, have you found a rich seam of users that value the same things you value?
Letter Loop gets my upvote! Just lovely.
Thanks @richardesigns! I asked a bunch of friends/network if they wanted a new way to communicate with their friends and family. A huge wave of friends said yes and I started testing the prototype with them. I also personally deeply integrate mindfulness practices into my life and wanted to create a product that reflect my beliefs and values.
This is genius! I love it!
Thanks @kieranball!
I like the concept @candacewu. Best of luck with launching!
Nice idea. There is the "fed up with Facebook etc." crowd who hate losing their privacy and having algorithms decide what they see. I think they would love this. Probably worth posting on Hacker News and some Reddits if you haven't done so already.
@mcapodici Thanks! Really appreciate the suggestion. Definitely want to post on Hacker news. Do you have any suggestions on which reddits would appreciate this kind of product? Open to ideas :) Thanks!
As someone who uses only email for communicating, for the same reasons you have mentioned, I like letterloop straightaway.
What's crucial would be, convincing friends, family members who use Messenger, WhatsApp for social communication, as for many those are their first/only experience of online communication platform; that communicating over email can offer more thoughtful experience.
Then again, how many of them really want to indulge in meaningful communication?
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback. Glad that you're aligned with the mission and why around email. We treat onboarding very seriously and found that combined with buy in from the group by the admin (whoever starts the Loop), it can lead to successful / recurring newsletters. We've also found that the type of conversations that happen over whatsapp and the live async communication channels are often updates, more shallow, and reserved for in person or calls. Also, it's likely they never occur depending on the type of group.
Great concept, and art!
Thanks!
Lovely idea! Especially important in this crazy pandemic, when it's so hard to see people face-to-face. Nice landing page too - lovely, friendly illustration style. Fits the product really well.
Thanks @allotropic! Exactly! Hope you get a chance to try it out.
Appreciate the shout out on the illustration, done by yours truly!
Even better. Kudos!
I'm probably not one of your target users but I think this is a great idea and I can see it working. Theres a lot of audio sharing apps for small groups like friends and family that this feels analogous to. E.g. https://capp.fm/
Thanks @johncb! Yeah definitely, I think audio is great too and I love capp except audio is definitely intimidating for most. Cant even get friends to send voice notes. Haha.
Very cool! I'll see if I can set my family up with this! 😄
Awesome, would love for you to try it!
I'll check it out tomorrow. Thanks for the welcome 😊
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@bsawyer Thanks! We wanted to spark different, more intentional conversations and found that people do best when they are prompted by questions. It helps break the habit of normal communication patterns. Staring at a blank page and figuring out how to share is hard. In additional to using our questions, everyone can ask each other custom questions that are meaningful to their group specifically.