# Introducing Postcards

By [Ride It to the Sky](https://jared.xyz) · 2026-06-04

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Social media in its purest form - sharing and connecting with real friends - is incredibly fun. It’s a great example of how technology can bring people closer together. It’s what I grew up with on the internet. 

Unfortunately, outside of our group chats, there are very few platforms that focus on connecting with people we actually know and care about. Maybe there’s no market for it anymore and we are in a post-social media world. But I don’t think that’s the case. I think there will always be a desire to share and connect with other human beings. 

In the middle of April, along with some colleagues I’ve worked with for over a decade, we started testing a new application called [Postcards](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/postcards-are-fun/id6764377933) with some friends and family. It’s fun, simple, and social, and we really like using it. 

Postcards are what happens when you mash together photos, voice notes, and some text, and use a little bit of AI and some filters to turn it into a nice little piece of stylized media. We create postcards about our days, personal musings, vacations, things our kids did, places we went, and more. From the mundane to the important, it’s how we are beginning to share the things that happen in our lives with our friends and families. 

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/34bbc54a59228221cd7be340c140532ab9f2ee12661173b760dfa1ec0d48831d.png)

Back in the day there were social networks that were built around your real friend graph. Those morphed into broadcast media - places to get famous and places to consume entertaining content, almost entirely from people you don’t know in real life. Then came the proliferation of group chats as an antidote - a place to be yourself and not be judged by the world. 

I know there is a space that exists somewhere between those two worlds - the best of your group chats, but only people you know and like in real life. Postcards is designed to play in that void. It’s an easy way to stay connected to the people you care about, and it is not a place for mind-numbingly consuming content. 

If you want to create some postcards and send them to friends and family, [try it out here](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/postcards-are-fun/id6764377933). **_I’d love your feedback on it_**, and I hope there are lots of builders out there trying to figure out how to make social media fun and feel good again.

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*Originally published on [Ride It to the Sky](https://jared.xyz/introducing-postcards)*