A group card the whole office, team or group chat signs in their own hand. Pick a design, add their name, send one link. I designed it, built it, and wrote a little risograph press in code to draw the cards.
Somebody's retiring, somebody's having a baby, somebody's moving across the country. Somebody has to get everyone's name on one card. That's signaround.
You pick a design, type who it's for, pay once, and drop one link in the group chat. Everybody taps an empty spot and signs it with a finger or a mouse. No sign-up to sign, no app to download. When signing's done, the person it's for gets their own private link, and the card shows up in an envelope.
The part I cared about most: it's your actual handwriting. Not your name in a cute font. So the whole product is built around one thing, the signature.
"The signing and opening process should feel very special and personal, and a touch fun."
How it works
Pick a look and tell it who it's for and what for. Birthdays, farewells, thank-yous, the lot.
One card, unlimited signers. Add photos, voice messages or glitter if you like.
Everyone picks an empty spot on the card and signs it with a finger or a mouse.
Close signing and send them their private link. The card opens, and there everyone is.
Step 3, up close
This is signaround's real pen, ported into this page: the same four implements, the same ink passes, the same grain. Everyone else already signed. Your spot's saved.
Ballpoint. A fine, certain line.
The pad needs JavaScript. The real one at signaround.com does too, sorry.
Math.random. A signature keeps the exact same texture forever, every time it's drawn.
Step 4, up close
No 3D library for the envelope. It's four flat planes (back, card, pocket, flap) moved by the browser's own 3D, and the card really does pass in front of the pocket on its way out. There's exactly one sound on the whole card: a paper rustle, timed to when the flap breaks the seal rather than when you tap. Then the card itself opens in three.js, lit like an actual object.
You only get the ceremony once per card. Somebody coming back to fix their name isn't owed two and a half seconds of theater.
The designs
A few days in, looking at the first batch of covers, it hit me: they're SVGs. What if every card could wear the recipient's favorite color, without redrawing a thing? That felt like the selling point.
It could. At build time every colored fill in a cover becomes a CSS variable with its original color as the fallback. Pick a color and each ink keeps its lightness but swings its hue next to yours, so the art stays readable. Paper, outlines and dark lettering never move. Try it.
The press
The first batch of covers came out of an image generator. For the next batch I tried something else: instead of generating art, print it. A risograph prints one spot ink at a time: the paper goes through once per color, each pass lays down flat, slightly starved ink, and the drum never lands in quite the same place twice. press.mjs is that machine in SVG.
Nothing is traced or fetched. The words are measured off the font's real kerning and turned into outlines, and the source for a cover averages about 12 KB.
The small stuff
Secret cards
signaround's homepage has a "Perfect for your…" strip of 24 groups, from bowling leagues to robotics teams. Every bubble hides two cards. Tap one and it's found, with confetti, and it shows up on the create page under Specialty. It's a game, not a lock.
Three links
Always room for one more
The card grows a ring at a time as people sign, so there's always an empty one outside the last signature. No limit on signers.
Dibs
Tap an empty square and it's held for you while you sign. Two people can't both win the same one; the database gets the last word.
For their eyes
Anyone with the signing link can read the card, so the photos and voice messages (up to 60 seconds) only come back for a request carrying the recipient's key. Even the person who just uploaded a photo gets it back as a blank.
Pay once
Unlimited signers. Photos +$2 (GIFs ride along), voice messages +$2, glitter's free. Checkout is Stripe's.
Under the hood
The whole app is one Worker with a hand-written router, serving plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No React, no Tailwind, no build step for the Worker.
Cards, orders, signatures and spot holds. Signatures are point arrays, a few KB of JSON each, drawn as SVG.
Photos and voice messages, filed per card. Anything not attached to a signature within the hour gets swept.
Webhook signatures are verified by hand, so there's no SDK to bundle. The return trip double-checks with Stripe too.
Only the slice the 3D card uses, and only loaded when a card actually opens.
Cloudflare Email Service sends the organizer their links. Magic-link sign-in lets them find every card later. Signers never see an account.
Where it's at
signaround is open. It launched Saturday, October 3. Head to signaround.com, pick a design, start a card, tell the group chat.
signaround.com