Thank you

A thank-you that is not a text message.

Three finished thank-you cards are on this page — not pictures of them, the real thing. Tap an envelope and read what comes out. If one is close to what you would say, the link underneath opens the write page with those exact words already in the box.

See the three cards

No signup · see it before you pay · from ₹49

Three cards, already made

Tap an envelope to open it. Nothing here is sent to anybody — these are samples, and the links below them open the write page with that note in the message box, which is as far as any of it goes. We never ask for the other person’s number: you get a link at the end and you send it yourself.

  1. For your parents · Marigold, the default hand

    Tap the envelope

    Thank you for letting me choose, including the time you were both certain I was making a mistake. You said your bit, and then you stood behind me anyway. That's a harder thing to do than either of you let on.

    Write this one for your parents
  2. For your teacher · Ivory, formal script

    Tap the envelope

    Thank you for making me believe I was capable of it before there was any real evidence for that. I've leaned on that belief a lot of times since, in rooms you'd have no particular reason to know about.

    Write this one for your teacher
  3. For your boss · Charcoal, printed hand

    Tap the envelope

    I learned how to run a team by watching you do it, mostly on the days when it wasn't going well. Thank you for being straight with us then instead of managing us. That taught me more than the good weeks did.

    Write this one for your boss

The names on these three are made up. The words are the suggestions we wrote, which is exactly what you get in the box — and then you change whatever is only yours.

What you are buying

₹49 is the card itself: up to 400 characters in your own words, the envelope, the wax seal, and the paper unfolding when they open the link on their phone — which is what the three above are doing. You see the finished thing, working, before you pay for it.

₹99 adds a photo, or a voice note of up to a minute in your own voice — one or the other, not both — and lets you seal the card so it will not open before a time you choose, anywhere from fifteen minutes to thirty days ahead, Indian time. Either card stays readable for ninety days, counted from when you send it or from when a sealed one unlocks.

The paper, the envelope colour, the wax and the handwriting are all yours to change while you write — the three above are three of the combinations, not three fixed designs. There is no account to make and nothing recurring. We do not know when a card is opened, and we do not tell you.

Most thanks arrive as one line in a chat and are forgotten by both people inside a week. Something that had to be opened, and that names what they actually did, tends not to be.

Start a thank-you card

This one asks who it is for first, then offers suggestions to start from.