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Bizcardz.ai is a website where you design business cards which are converted to KiCad PCB schematics which can be manufactured (using metals) by companies such as Elecrow and PCBWay

The site is free. Elecrow charges about $1 per pcb in quantities of 50 and $0.80 in quantities of 100.

I have hacked away at this on and off for about two years so just happy to get it published

Comments (14)

MrJohz · 32m ago

> We need to show dozens of things at once and this won't fit on a phone. Switch to desktop.

Scrollbars can help!

I really like the idea, although the designs are a bit limited and I don't know that I'd use this tool if I did want to make this kind of business card. But looking at the UI, this is all stuff that would be pretty easy to make responsive, and would work fairly well on mobile. It's a bit of a shame to add an arbitrary limitation like this.

Retr0id · 24m ago

I'm confused, where does the AI come in?

matthewfcarlson · 22m ago

It generates the designs

Retr0id · 18m ago

The designs generated during my session looked almost identical to your example pictures in the faq.

abetusk · 1h ago

"MIT: non-commercial use" [0]

I have no idea what this means.

> MIT: non-commercial use, Proprietary: commercial use, contact for terms: hello@bizcardz.ai

Then, right under it:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions ...

What?

[0] https://github.com/rhodey/bizcardz.ai/blob/master/LICENSE

rhodey · 1h ago

Though you may wish the license was different I find it hard to believe you have no idea what the license allows for

This can be found online as "dual licensing"

progbits · 21m ago

This is not how dual licensing works. If you offer two licenses I get to pick. And I pick MIT which allows me to use it commercially.

If you disagree, then it's not MIT but some custom license, so don't label it as such.

rhodey · 11m ago

What the license allows for is very clear

I publish many things without dual licensing and yet your kind will not be satisfied

cAtte_ · 8m ago

if it forbids commercial use, it's not MIT. like at all

rhodey · 1m ago

This is simple I wrote a license The license says there are two licenses If you are non-commercial you get MIT If you are commercial you email for terms

There is nowhere a claim that this is MIT

abetusk · 1h ago

No. I may have a guess of what the intended license is but what the license says is complete nonsense. It's self contradictory.

If they want to let people use it in non-commercial settings but are willing to provide a license for commercial use, then they could have provided a non-commercial license.

If they wanted to provide a FOSS license, then they should have provided one and offered a dual license option (by the actual commonly accepted usage of that term in this context).

If they want to make an MIT-like license but make it for non-commercial use, then they should just call it a non-commercial license and not confuse the issue by claiming it's MIT.

As it stands, they've provided a FOSS license, that explicitly allows the use, modification, redistribution and resale in commercial settings, but slapped a "non-commercial" term at the top of it.

"Please use this software however you like, including in commercial settings, redistributing it for profit and modifying it for your commercial use. Also, don't use it for commercial use"

What?

stuartjohnson12 · 1h ago

Don't mind me over here reselling your software non-commercially

themanmaran · 1h ago

It would be nice to see an actual picture of the physical business card here. Also do you handle sending the design to a manufacturer, or do I need to download and send myself?

rhodey · 1h ago

The FAQ page is linked to from the home page

https://bizcardz.ai/faq

On the FAQ page there are links to images of the end result / physical