Prototype for digital postcards tied to a place. Whoever receives the photo and the message has to go there to open them.
Status
Prototype
Year
2024
The problem I saw
The more a relationship lives on the phone, the less it depends on where you are. We wanted a mechanic where the place carried weight: a message you cannot read unless you stand where it was left.
Idea and scope
One mechanic only: photo, message, and a point on the map. The recipient sees the notice, but the content stays shut until they get there. No feed, no profiles, no social network around it.
What I built
The flow for creating a postcard: photo, message, and location.
Proximity unlocking, with the distance on screen as you get closer.
The onboarding that explains the mechanic in three screens.
Where it stands
Working prototype. It closes the loop of creating, receiving, and opening a postcard, but it never shipped.
What it shows
Turning an unusual condition — physically being somewhere — into a flow people follow without anyone explaining it.
Product and engineering inside a three-person team, with AuroraJobs' former CTO and Product Owner.
Inside
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01Creating a postcard: a photo, a message, not much else.
02The location isn't a tag: it's where the moment unlocks.
03You get the notice. The content, not yet.
04Twenty metres away. You have to actually be there to open it.
05The starting idea: moments that travel between the physical and the digital.
06You leave the memory in a place. Your friends find it there.
