Show HN: I made email signatures less boring

A new Show HN project called esigna wants to rescue the painfully dull email signature by turning it into something more eye-catching: a custom sign-off with your name, contact details, and even an optional AI-made bobblehead version of your face. The pitch is simple enough for anyone to get: upload a photo, get a cartoonish little avatar, drop it into a signature, and paste that image into Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, and more. Basic signature creation is free, while the avatar part costs credits.

But the real entertainment was in the reaction. One commenter basically mourned a lost future, joking that we were "this close to glory" before getting "a generic 3D doll instead of forum-like signatures," and even dropped a throwback example to argue the internet could have gone in a much flashier direction. Another user delivered the most brutal two-word review possible: "uncanny valley." Ouch. That instantly turned the product from "fun personalization tool" into "tiny digital clone that may or may not haunt your inbox."

And because no launch is complete without a little practical chaos, one person simply reported that the page wouldn’t load, while another used the moment to declare, like a proud minimalist rebel, "this is why I force plain text on emails." Still, not everyone came to throw tomatoes. One commenter admitted it wasn’t their thing, but praised it for being genuinely different. So the vibe was clear: part nostalgia, part horror, part appreciation, and 100% comment-section theater.