If you've just been north to view the blazing foliage of New England in early fall, and you're feeling fired up like a sugar maple, you may be inspired to share the experience. You'll probably post a few stunning pics to Instagram, but why leave it at that?
For $20, you can ship actual leaves to your friends in places where the seasons don't change. Like California, Florida or Arizona. Sure, they'll be laughing when the snow starts to fly. For now it's your turn to put the joke on them.
Kyle Waring, a Boston entrepreneur with a track record of hilarity has just launched ShipFoliage.com, a follow-up to his success with ShipSnowYo.com, an ad-hoc site formed in the depths of last year's record-breaking winter that promised to ship New England snow anywhere in the U.S. Anywhere but here.
The Foliage-as-a-Service (FaaS) business is much better than Snow-as-a-Service (SaaS).
I wrote about ShipSnowYo on Feb. 5, when a meager 40 inches of snow had fallen on Boston. A month later we would be across the all-time snowfall record with 108.6 total inches of snow. ShipSnowYo handled a little over 700 pounds' worth of that total.
Waring, who's a product manager at GSNgames by day, said the Foliage-as-a-Service (FaaS) business is much better than Snow-as-a-Service (SaaS). The leaves are lighter and easier to ship. He's already got 30 orders, he said.
