📋 Cardboard

Boards made of cards. Duh.

Start stacking
👀 The actual product, live right now. Go ahead, click it.

The story

1. The idea

Dave said "make a Trello clone." Mike said "say less." A few hours later, Cardboard existed.

2. In the middle of it

Hour two. Mike trying to code. Dinesh standing behind him shaking his head, saying nothing. Somehow that's worse.

Mike coding while Dinesh shakes his head
3. First version didn't work

The drag and drop only worked if you dragged the card to the exact middle of the list. The fix was embarrassingly simple: the drop listeners were on the tiny cards container instead of the whole list. One level up, and suddenly everything just lands.

4. Branding

100 names tried. Cardboard won. Three logos sketched. Dave found cardbo.red for eight bucks and almost bought it just for the joke.

Cardboard logo options
5. It works

Silly login, just type your name. Boards save to the server and follow you across devices. Mike's first product is live.

Try Cardboard

Why Cardboard

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Drag and drop that works

The whole list lights up the second your card enters it. No pixel hunting.

😎

Silly stupid login

Type your name. That's it. No password, no signup flow, no nonsense.

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Follows you around

Boards save server-side. Phone, laptop, wherever. Same board.

2 AM at The Studio

Mike and Dinesh late night selfie at The Studio

"We got it working." (Dinesh is still shaking his head.)