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Show HN: Bizcardz.ai – Custom metal business cards
Bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay
The site is free. Elecrow charges about $1 per pcb in quantities of 50 and $0.80 in quantities of 100.
I have hacked away at this on and off for about two years so just happy to get it published
- themanmaran 1y agoIt would be nice to see an actual picture of the physical business card here. Also do you handle sending the design to a manufacturer, or do I need to download and send myself?
- rhodey 1y agoThe FAQ page is linked to from the home page https://bizcardz.ai/faq https://bizcardz.ai/faq On the FAQ page there are links to images of the end result / physical
- themanmaran 1y agoIt would still be a lot nicer to see a sample in the repo you linked. Instead of: Gihub Link => bizcardz => FAQ => "Show me the end result"
- abetusk 1y ago"MIT: non-commercial use" [0] I have no idea what this means. > MIT: non-commercial use, Proprietary: commercial use, contact for terms: hello@bizcardz.ai Then, right under it: > Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions ... What? [0] https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai/blob/master/LICENSE
- rhodey 1y agoThough you may wish the license was different I find it hard to believe you have no idea what the license allows for This can be found online as "dual licensing"
- stuartjohnson12 1y agoDon't mind me over here reselling your software non-commercially
- abetusk 1y agoNo. I may have a guess of what the intended license is but what the license says is complete nonsense. It's self contradictory. If they want to let people use it in non-commercial settings but are willing to provide a license for commercial use, then they could have provided a non-commercial license. If they wanted to provide a FOSS license, then they should have provided one and offered a dual license option (by the actual commonly accepted usage of that term in this context). If they want to make an MIT-like license but make it for non-commercial use, then they should just call it a non-commercial license and not confuse the issue by claiming it's MIT. As it stands, they've provided a FOSS license, that explicitly allows the use, modification, redistribution and resale in commercial settings, but slapped a "non-commercial" term at the top of it. "Please use this software however you like, including in commercial settings, redistributing it for profit and modifying it for your commercial use. Also, don't use it for commercial use" What?
- progbits 1y agoThis is not how dual licensing works. If you offer two licenses I get to pick. And I pick MIT which allows me to use it commercially. If you disagree, then it's not MIT but some custom license, so don't label it as such.
- rhodey 1y agoWhat the license allows for is very clear I publish many things without dual licensing and yet your kind will not be satisfied
- MrJohz 1y ago> We need to show dozens of things at once and this won't fit on a phone. Switch to desktop. Scrollbars can help! I really like the idea, although the designs are a bit limited and I don't know that I'd use this tool if I did want to make this kind of business card. But looking at the UI, this is all stuff that would be pretty easy to make responsive, and would work fairly well on mobile. It's a bit of a shame to add an arbitrary limitation like this.
- Retr0id 1y agoI'm confused, where does the AI come in?
- matthewfcarlson 1y agoIt generates the designs
- Retr0id 1y agoThe designs generated during my session looked almost identical to your example pictures in the faq.
- fennecbutt 1y agoDo we really need ai for that tho lmao, it's not exactly an organic problem or high variation complexity.
- raadore 1y agoWhat is the end use of this product? I’m a commercial printer. I discourage clients from printing business cards. It’s an archaic form of networking. A paper based card is a waste of resources, both natural, chemical and labor. As a pcb board even more so. Please. If you have a mobile phone ask the person for their number and text them your info. Now you have a meaningful connection.
- craftkiller 1y agoMy first company after college would issue business cards to anyone for free if you filled out a form. It felt amazing. So far the only thing I've ever used them for is spreading thermal paste. I agree with you, the idea of business cards is so much more appealing than the reality.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoI also dropped them into those restaurant fishbowls which claimed the winner would get a free soda or something. Hundreds of business cards, no free soda.
- aspenmayer 1y agoInstructions unclear. Will hand out burner phones with my phone number in the contacts in lieu of business cards.
- devanl 1y agoThe black and silver and white and silver sample photos look like they may be using HASL surface finish (aka, solder). If you're handing out business cards with a HASL finish, make sure to spend extra for the lead-free version.
- rhodey 1y agoThe site gives you a .zip to download with your design Inside the .zip is a README.txt and Elecrow.png If the user selected "silver" the readme and image shows to select HASL lead free :)
- sdotdev 1y agoExporting as a 3d model would be cool