A digital birthday card that friends and family sign together. Each heart holds a message.
A shared card works only if signing is effortless, so no accounts and no passwords. But a public form that publishes instantly lets anyone write under anyone’s name and turns the card into a list of scrapeable email addresses.
What the product does for the people using it, and why it works that way.
Hover or tap a heart to read its message. A single cloud is moved to whichever heart is active, so only one can be open at a time, and it can be kept inside the card’s edges instead of hanging off the side.
A tap fires both focus and click, which would open and immediately close the cloud. The card picks one interaction model based on whether the device can hover.
Hearts are scattered with a seeded random number generator keyed on each signature, so the server and client agree and hovering never reshuffles the field. Taps hit a 44 px target while the heart reads at about 28 px. All motion is disabled under reduced motion with CSS alone.
Opening the emailed link lands the signer on the card, with their heart now visible and a toast saying so. The toast cannot replay on refresh.
Each one as the decision, the reasoning, the trade-off accepted and the outcome.
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