Sticky Fax
How to StickyFax
The whole manual, short enough to read while the kettle boils. Your creature also prints its own instructions — this is here for when the sticker's already on the fridge.
day one: plug it in
That's genuinely step one and almost the whole list. The moment it has power, your StickyFax wakes up, plays its little chime, and prints you a sticker with instructions. Follow the sticker. It knows what it's doing.
The recap, for the curious:
- Fresh out of the box, your creature makes its own wifi network with a name like StickyFax-Capybara. Join it from your phone.
- A friendly page pops up and asks for two things: your home wifi (so it can get online) and a name (so friends know whose desk they're writing to — "Dan's Desk," "Grandma's Kitchen").
- It chimes, settles in, and prints its fax address — a link and QR code like stickyfax.com/to/grandmas-kitchen-q7m.
Share that address with people you want mail from. Done. There is no step four.
how the mail works
Anyone with your address opens it in the browser already on their phone — no app, no account — and sends a note, a doodle, or a photo. Across town or across the country, your desk whirs, and out curls a sticker. Peel it, stick it, smile like an idiot.
It can't send anything back, and that's on purpose. It can't buzz, ping, or interrupt. Nothing to check — something to find.
the button
One button. It does exactly four things.
Press it once — fun. It dials a random phone number, beep-boop style, connected to nothing and nobody. It does this because buttons are for pressing.
Press it twice — it reprints the last fax. For when the first copy went on the fridge and your kid wants one for the lunchbox.
Press it three times — it prints a status sticker: your creature's name, the QR code friends scan to send you mail (share this one freely!), and a private QR code that opens its settings (keep that one to yourself).
Press and hold — factory reset, done safely. Moving house? New wifi? Hold the button and keep holding: your creature counts you down out loud, so you can't do it by accident — just let go to cancel. Held all the way (about fifteen seconds), it prints a goodbye slip with a recovery code, forgets the old wifi, and wakes up as a brand-new creature ready for setup. The recovery code brings your old fax address back, so the people who love you never have to update a thing.
feeding it paper
When a roll runs out, drop in a new one — standard 80mm thermal rolls, no ink, ever. The sticker-backed rolls that make the magic are four for $50 from me; plain receipt paper works in a pinch.
when something's off
A confused creature usually just needs a nap: unplug it, count to five, plug it back in. If your wifi changed, do the press-and-hold reset above and set it up fresh. And if it's truly under the weather, that's my department:
Get in touch: hello@stickyfax.com. You'll get me, not a ticket queue.
The guarantee: 100% money-back — you'll love it, and if you don't, I'll make it right. If it ever breaks, same deal. I built it and I stand behind it.