StoryWorth - Easily record family stories

Welcome, @nickbaum! First question... What inspired you to create StoryWorth?

I love Storyworth. It's one of those gifts where the intangible value is priceless (like that Mastercard commercial - haha!). It brings you closer to your family members and helps you understand more about yourself and your origins. It's also creates the greatest ever sense of urgency ever - get your family history documented before it's too late!

I met with solo-founder, @nickbaum, ~2 months ago (great guy!). I like the email-first approach (http://ryanhoover.me/post/439868...). Great way to build and validate demand for the product quickly.

I'm the founder, AMA! PS: it's a great holiday gift for parents and grandparents :)

Long story short, my dad is 83 years old, so I basically built it for him to record his stories, so I can have them for my eventual kids and grand-kids. I recently printed a book of his StoryWorth stories... it's 80+ pages long! If I'd told him he'd write 80 pages of his biography this year, he would never have believed me – the power of habits. PS: Good community management, Ryan – though email notifications would have helped me notice this sooner!

@nickbaum - YES! Those are coming soon courtesy of @nbashaw and the internetz. :)

@nickbaum - Right now it's only text. Do you see photos or other media being added to StoryWorth? P.S. I wonder what StoryWorth + Heyday would look like. :)

You can actually already upload audio and photo attachments, both on the web and as email attachments, though I haven't emphasized that yet since most people don't have their family digitized yet (I'm looking into some ways around that as well).

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