Rosewood
Deep red and cream, with roses, a teddy and a handwritten feel. The warm, romantic one.
For her birthday
Make a birthday website
for your girlfriend.
Her photos, your letter, and a four digit code only the two of you know. You send one link. She types the code, and the whole thing opens up.
No account, no coding, no hosting to figure out. Pay once when it is ready.
Before you open a code editor
You could build it yourself. Here is how that usually goes.
It starts well. You ask an AI to build a birthday website, and twenty minutes later there is code on your screen that looks about right.
Then it goes quiet. The code has to live somewhere, so now you are making an account with a host you have never heard of. The photos come out sideways. The song will not play on its own, because browsers stopped allowing that years ago. Something you did not touch has stopped working and there is no obvious reason why. It is half past one in the morning and her birthday is tomorrow.
None of that is a skill problem. Small websites are genuinely fiddly, and the fiddly parts all arrive at the end, when you have the least time left and the most to lose.
WishCrane is the same idea with the fiddly parts already finished. You bring the photos and the words. Everything else is done.
What she opens
Not a card. A whole little world.
Eight parts to move through, and each one holds something of yours.
A locked opening
The page starts closed, with a four digit code you choose. Her birthday, the day you met, whatever means something. Anyone else who somehow finds the link sees a lock screen and nothing else.
A cake she blows out
Candles she puts out herself, on her own screen, before anything else happens. It is small and it is silly and it is the part people always mention afterwards.
Your photos, three ways
The pictures you pick fill a polaroid stack she can toss aside, an album with pages that turn corner by corner, and the frame beside the lock screen.
A letter she can keep
The thing you actually want to say, sealed behind a wax seal until she taps it open. Most people write more here than they expect to.
Reasons, listed out
A run of short notes about her. Not a paragraph, just the things you would say if someone asked why her.
A link that keeps working
It is a real page on a real address. She can open it next week, or on her birthday next year, and it will still be there.
How to make it
Three steps, about ten minutes.
No account to make, no app to download, nothing to install.
- 01
Pick a design
Two to choose from. Rosewood is deep red and warm, with roses and a teddy. Aurora is night blue and dreamy, with northern lights and falling snow. Open both and pick the one that feels like her.
- 02
Add your photos and write your bit
Five to twelve pictures, a letter, and the reasons. Every single field already has something sensible written in it, so you can change only what you want and leave the rest. That is why this takes ten minutes and not an evening.
- 03
Pay once and send the link
The link goes live straight away and lands in your email. Send it on WhatsApp or Instagram whenever you are ready. If you spot a typo later, you have 24 hours to fix anything.
Look first
See a real one before you make one.
These are the two designs, open and working. Try the code on the hint and go through the whole thing.
Aurora
Night blue skies, northern lights, falling snow and a little panda. The soft, dreamy one.
What it costs
One payment. Nothing after that.
You pay when the page is finished and you are happy with it. Not before.
One birthday website
$3.99$12.99
Launch price, for now
- Her own private link, live forever
- Up to twelve of your photos
- A photo album with pages that turn
- Locked with your four digit code
- 24 hours to edit anything after you send it
- No watermark, no subscription, no renewal
Questions
Things people ask before they start.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. There is nothing to install, no account to make, and no hosting to set up. You fill in a form, and the website is made for you. If you can send a WhatsApp message you can do this.
How long does it really take?
About ten minutes if your photos are already on the device you are using. The writing is the slow part, and every field starts with something reasonable already in it, so you are editing rather than staring at an empty box.
Does she need an app or an account?
No. She taps the link, types the four digit code you chose, and the page opens. It works in whatever browser is already on her phone.
Is it actually private?
Yes. The link is unguessable, the page is locked behind your code, and these pages are not indexed by search engines. Photos also have their metadata stripped, including GPS location, before they are stored.
How many photos can I put in?
Between five and twelve. They fill the polaroid stack, the flip book and the frame on the lock screen. You can swap any of them for another at any point before you send it.
Can I change something after I have sent her the link?
Yes. You get an edit link by email and 24 hours to change anything you like, as many times as you need. Whatever you change updates on the link you already sent, so you do not have to send a new one.
Does the link expire?
No. You pay once and the page stays online. There is no subscription, nothing to renew and nothing to cancel.
What if I want it for an anniversary instead?
Plenty of people do exactly that. Both designs are written for birthdays out of the box, but you can change every line of text, so an anniversary or a just because page works just as well.
Her birthday is coming.
Ten minutes now, and she has something to open that nobody else has.