Design
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Why a letter should take time to arrive
Every letter in Letterway travels at 380 km/h. You cannot pay to make it faster. Here is the reasoning behind the one rule the whole app rests on.
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Read receipts, but only for reading
Looking at a letter should be private. Reading it should not. How the wax seal in Letterway separates the two, and why that distinction is the whole feature.
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We drew the map ourselves
A stock map SDK would have made Letterway look like every other app. So the small maps are drawn from Natural Earth data, and the big ones are OpenStreetMap.
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Being ghosted is a design problem
The most common complaint about pen-pal apps is people who stop replying. Some of that is human. A lot of it is made by a reverse-chronological inbox.