Kitty Messages is a warm little website for sending personalized cat cards to the people you love. Pick an occasion, write your words, add a song, photos or a voice note, and Kitty delivers a card they open like a gift, right away or on the day you choose.
What it does
- Cards with your own words, a song, photos and a 15-second voice note
- Scheduled delivery: Kitty emails the card on the morning you pick, even months ahead
- Ten envelope themes, each a whole animated page: Rose Garden, Moonlit Garden, Midnight Velvet and more
- Recipients send hearts back, leave a thought and write a card in reply
- A keepsake video of every card, with its song
- Free to make, with a $4.99 full card
How it's built
- Next.js 16, React 19, TypeScript and Tailwind CSS
- PostgreSQL with Prisma
- Self-hosted with Docker on a $36-a-year VPS, behind Cloudflare
- Cards are rendered to images in the visitor's browser, with a server fallback
So far
- More than 1,400 cards made and 1,000 reactions from the people who received them, with no ad spend
Stuck on what to write? Browse Kitty's message ideas for every occasion, or make a card in about a minute.