An online guestbook interface that accepts drawings
When we built the guestbook on our company website [1] we received a lot of positive feedback and a big response on Hacker News [2]. Fast forward to today. We've since built a complete blogging and site platform called Pika [3]. We got to thinking that it would be great if people on our platform had the ability to experience this guestbook thing for themselves. While we couldn't send a printer out to everyone, we could make a completely digital, art-based guestbook for folks on our platform. The guestbook provides a drawing canvas in the browser. When the drawing is submitted, it is then…
An online guestbook interface that accepts drawings launched on May 17, 2024 with 11 votes, #1,156 of 4,539 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
An online guestbook interface that accepts drawings is a digital guest-signing feature for the Pika blogging platform. Visitors can draw directly in their browser using a canvas tool, and their artwork is converted to PNG format for display in a shared guestbook gallery. Submitted entries are reviewed by moderators before publication to maintain quality and prevent spam.
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From the sources
This guestbook is made possible by Pika! We’re excited to see your drawing, or feel free to write us a message if you prefer. Thank you! (Note that your signing...
This guestbook is made possible by Pika ! We’re excited to see your drawing, or feel free to write us a message if you prefer. Thank you! (Note that your signing won’t appear on the page immediately, as we have to review each entry to keep our guestbook free of spam.) Thank you for EVERYTHING you do! Best platform and so glad I am so glad to be a customer. Thank you for building Pika! As an older millennial, I very much appreciate the way it is, and feel very seen. Hi. Thank you for making Pika. I’m delighted to have found a home for my blog. Can we please have more colors for drawing in Guestbook? 🥺 Like infrom pika.pika.page
In the maker’s words, at launch
When we built the guestbook on our company website [1] we received a lot of positive feedback and a big response on Hacker News [2]. Fast forward to today. We've since built a complete blogging and site platform called Pika [3]. We got to thinking that it would be great if people on our platform had the ability to…
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