# Lillepost: the family chat for grandparents, on paper

> A little printer for grandparents. The family sends photos and notes from their phones. Grandma presses the heart, and your phone lights up.

- Campaign page: https://epish.co/project/417fbab3-5a9f-46ed-b071-f68ebfe52ef0
- Creator: Christian Adel Michael
- Category: Home
- Stage: Concept
- Last updated: 2026-11-12

Grandma does not need a smartphone to be in the family chat.

Every family has one: the group chat where the photos, the first steps, the lost teeth and the silly Tuesday moments land. And almost every family has someone who is not in it. Usually it is the person who would love it most. They do not have a smartphone, or they have one and never open it, or the screen is too small and the apps keep changing. So the moments pile up, and they hear about them weeks later, if at all.

Lillepost is a little printer that sits on their kitchen table and brings the family chat to them, on paper.

How it works
1. You send. Anyone in the family opens a simple web link on their own phone, picks a photo, writes a line, and taps send. No app to install.
2. It prints. A few seconds later, Lillepost plays a soft chime and a small card slides out of the oak front: the photo and your words.
3. They answer. On top there is one red button with a heart. When they press it, your phone buzzes: Nana got it, and she loves it.

That third step is the whole idea. A printer on its own is a one-way street, and one-way streets get quiet. The heart button closes the loop. The person sending gets something back every time, so they keep sending.

Nothing to learn
No screen. No menus. No charging. No passwords. The family sets Lillepost up on the home Wi-Fi before giving it, plugs it in, and that is it. If paper runs low or it goes offline, the family gets the message, not the grandparent.

What is planned
- About 14 x 10 x 9 cm, a soft rounded body with a solid wood front, in oat and oak, charcoal and walnut, or sage and ash
- One red heart button that sends a heart back to whoever sent the last card
- Black and white printing on long-life, phenol-free thermal paper, cards about 6 x 9 cm
- A family circle: invite as many family members as you like, all managed from a web page
- Two paper rolls in the box, roughly 650 cards; refills sold separately at cost plus a small margin
- No subscription, no app, no account for the grandparent

Where it stands today
Lillepost is a concept. Nothing has been built or tested yet. Every picture on this page is an AI concept image that shows the design intent, not a photograph of a product. The prints in the pictures look sharper than a real thermal print will: real cards are black and white with a soft dotted look, a bit like an old newspaper photo.

Price, delivery and shipping
Planned campaign prices are EUR 119 for the first 150 backers, EUR 129 for the next 350 and EUR 149 after that, or EUR 279 for two (one for each set of grandparents). The planned retail price is EUR 179. Every price includes EU VAT and standard shipping to the 27 EU countries. The campaign is planned as all-or-nothing, from 2 March to 1 April 2027, with a goal of EUR 280,000. That pays for the electronics and firmware, the web service, prototypes, certification, tooling and the first production run. Estimated delivery is July 2028, about 15 months after the campaign closes. These figures come from a budget, not supplier quotes, and the date is an estimate, not a promise.

What we ask of you
Follow Lillepost, and tell us who in your family it would be for.

What we do not know yet
How long the cards stay readable on the best long-life paper we can source. How many families keep sending after the first month, which is why we want to run a trial with real families during prototyping. Whether the name Lillepost is free to use. What the final costs are once suppliers quote.

Details are stated by the creator on EPISH (https://epish.co).