Time Will Come

@pavelpekanov I like the idea of a digital time capsule a lot! PRICING // Though I'm not sure if people are willing to pay these big amounts. I think you should try different pricings with different services, not just in different time spans. For example different prices for 5min or 40min of time. If you get the price down to a reasonable amount, say 5min / year will cost 10$, I think the probability that people are going to join, is much higher. Additionally I recommend to have a look at subscription based models, so e.g. I pay 20$ / year and can record up to 40min, but I can split these 40mins in more than one video. PRIVATE VS. PUBLIC // Have you also thought about a public time capsule? Many stories are private and should be kept private, but I would maybe also like to share my thoughts and advise to the whole community. GET IT STARTED // As this product is really a long term project, I think it won't be easy to reach a critical mass, which makes it a profitable and sustainable product. People can not interact with your website frequently, they have almost no content to interact with. Maybe you have some idea, how you can transform your product in some community/forum website, which I like to visit frequently, because people are sharing regularly their thoughts and if I want to get my daily dose of inspiration of someone who wants to share his personal story, I get one random story selected. I'd love to get something like this. Looking forward to the progress you're going to make with this product!

Nice. I see the pricing is an issue here and that's why I'll talk about "my idea" a couple of years back (never even tried). I thought about supplying the service for free but storing all the data on my servers and charging users for stopping future videos they created. Suddenly you get a notice that the video you created 6 months ago to a close friend is about to be sent... you realize you were drunk and told her "not to marry that bozo". You guessed it, she's married to him now. You actually pay to cancel the video from getting to her. The closer it is to the send time the more it'll cost.

Hey ProductHunters, The project "Time Will Come" is the place where you record a video-message and seal it with a secret keyphrase till the right time comes. If you're familiar with the concept of "message in a bottle" and "time capsule", that's it. Only this time your message does have the recipient (if you forward your secret keyphrase to the other person, of course). This idea had a quick execution. My girlfriend's childhood friend read her some of their letters after 15 years passed. And when she told me that, the whole story and the emotions they both had--the emotions, the feels were just that words can't tell--so we decided to make this idea real. We thought if other people could tell their friends, family, children how they care about them, how they see life now and what they think it would become in the future--these moments would be priceless to watch after some time. So, what would happen if your experience, your life and yourself could be timeless? What could've changed? What story would you tell? It's up to you now to find out. Use the coupon-code "producthunt" to seal your messages for free. The code will expire Feb 1, 2016.

@bentossel, >Shouldn't there be an email/text/FB message/etc Think anonymous and private. We don't gather any personal data, we don't process any emails, we don't have a mailer script that could possibly scrape the emails based on user input, and we won't have a login/password stuff at all. The downside of this is that the user will have to do the "forwarding" part by himself.

Can I save this message for the future?

Great idea but pricing is a problem.

To add on to what @bentossell was saying about the sharing the code option, for $100,000 I think there should be some method of notifying the user when the 'capsule' can be opened. With $100,000 you could buy a house some places, you could buy a really nice car, or you could buy a 'Time Will Come' (up to 40 minute) video that will show in 50 years. When first seeing this idea on your website I thought it might cost (at the most) $30... I was thinking this because what's the difference between this and me opening Photo Booth on my Mac and recording a 40 minute video and put a time lock on that file, then put that file on a flash drive. For $100,000, I think the person the video is supposed to go to should get a letter on the date of the future when the video is available telling them the code and who sent it. And if it's $100,000 the letter should be gold and have diamonds on it, because $100,000 is a lot of money. Another thing that I have a question about it what if the website was not here in 50 years. There should be some kind of protection so the buyer could receive their money back if the website was leaving. And BTW I think the concept of this is great! 👍