[mikesaraf]

A very well done site! The ability to jump in and make a card and get a shortened link without signing up and harvesting email is one of the real attractions, the other is the flickr integration, its really slick.

A possible problem is you may be violating the license to some of these images. The first few I checked out where all creative commons, but this one does not allow derivative works, but it shows up in the results: http://www.flickr.com/photos/24879866@N05/3488893875/

(I may be misinterpreting the license)

One minor thing, where it displays the images from flickr, I would make the "use" button more apparent, it doesn't look like a button so it is not clear that you can click on it.

Otherwise its a very nice site, how long did it take you to build? Technical details?

[bryanlanders]

Thanks for trying it out! This is the ecard site I wished existed for years...no spammy ads, and no confusing sign up where you don't really know how much it will cost, etc. The main incentive right now for creating an account is to be able to have all your cards in one place (on your profile) and be able to edit them.

Re: the Flickr images, all the images pulled in via the API are not edited, copied, or saved in any way on Card Karma. They are actually loading right from Flickr's CDNs. I've tried to get feedback from a number of Flickr photographers and a Flickr admin to make sure I'm inline with their terms, and so far it's not been a problem.

It took me forever! I went to school for Jazz Performance on the banjo, so I had to learn Django, working with AWS products, etc, as I built the app. See my comment below for more tech details.