Story Worth – privately collect and share family stories
storyworth.comI've used StoryWorth. It's a great service and definitely not a social network. Your family members respond to questions via email with stories and the service stores them. Then they're safely stored. Great for older family members who don't really understand anything besides email.
Isn't their response already stored in your email?
It is indeed, which makes for a nice backup. In fact, a lot of our storytellers never visit the site, interacting with the service entirely over email.
It's still great to have a copy online for backup, editing, sharing with new family members (e.g. spouses), or ordering printed books.
Great service, big fan of StoryWorth!
Hi everyone, I'm the founder of StoryWorth, AMA!
StoryWorth is a YC (W11) co.
"private", on the network? Somebody's still using that hook? Does it work?
Maybe some old people still think things are private online - even if they've seen about PRISM (etc!) in the news they may forget.
They have an example of some possibly illegal activity being spoken about by an old guy recanting putting a car into the deans office of at Yale law school. Can you say honeytrap? ;)
Haha, that "old guy" is actually my dad, but I won't tell him you said that :)
I think it's very understandable to be skeptical of online privacy these days. There is no such thing as perfect privacy, but there's a wide spectrum between a fully public Twitter account and a Gmail account secured with 2 factor auth.
Where you strive to be on that spectrum influences your product decisions, and that in turns affects the interactions your customers have. In our case, the goal is to encourage meaningful conversations between close family members, rather than broad public sharing.
More info here: https://www.storyworth.com/privacy
oh great another social network.
It's not even that. You're limited to a max of 15 people per $99-per-year account.