Handwrytten · robot-written handwritten notes
Let customers add gift cards or cookies to each note
Unknownupsell-expansion
What they did
Customers can add Starbucks/Amazon gift cards to notes; first fulfillment item planned is a box of two big cookies with a note (brownies rejected because they ship badly).
In their words
Top Founders with Nathan Latka · Handwrytten Sends 6 Million Fake Handwritten Notes a Year and Makes $10M“We are going to start doing cookies as our first fulfillment item.”
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