Document the build years.
Own the words forever.
A digital archive for the life you're living — on the only platform where content sovereignty is engineering, not marketing.
Most platforms tell you that you own your content. Living Legacy lets you verify it independently of us. Every entry you publish is pinned permanently on the open IPFS network with a public Content Identifier (CID) you can retrieve from any gateway worldwide — today, in fifty years, and after we’re gone. Plus: no AI training, no advertising, no third-party data sales. Ever.
Four claims, in plain language
You own everything
Story Submission Terms Section 3, with no buried clauses: copyright and ownership stay with you. The license you grant us is for hosting only — not commercial use, not syndication, not licensing to third parties. If we ever pursue a derivative use case (a printed book of remembrances, for example) we will seek your separate, explicit permission first.
Permanence you can verify
Every entry is pinned on IPFS with a public Content Identifier. Paste any CID into dweb.link, ipfs.io, or any public gateway and the file resolves — even if our website is offline. Operating Principle 4: we only make permanence claims we can prove.
No surveillance
Operating Principle 5: only third parties our platform talks to are Stripe (your payment) and Let's Encrypt (your security). No advertising. No tracking pixels. No analytics that profile you. Your submissions are never used to train any AI system — ours or anyone else's (Operating Principle 6).
Family choice when you pass
At signup you designate an executor. When the time comes, your family chooses what happens: publish your archive as a public memorial under the standard Honored Ancestors archive, keep it private to family only, or preserve it offline. Either way, the IPFS CIDs survive independently. Operating Principle 8: outlive the founder.
Built for the build years
If you are a founder, creator, or builder in your most documentable decade, the version of you that exists today is irreplaceable. Decisions you are making this week, the lessons that hurt to learn, the small moments that signal what you stand for — these will shape how your grandchildren know you. They are also exactly the things that disappear into Slack archives, ephemeral threads, and notebooks no one finds.
Living Legacy is the place to put them on the record. Weekly retrospectives. Decisions and the rationale behind them. Photos of the room where the company started. Audio of your founder voice. Lessons after a hard quarter. The version of yourself you want your future-grandchildren to actually meet.
- Text entries with one photo per entry at MVP. Audio, video, and gallery support in later phases.
- Weekly nudge emails if you want them. Off if you don't.
- A simple chronological timeline of your archive — your build years, on the record.
- Editorial principles — all eight — apply to every entry.
Choose your membership
Two ways to belong. Both carry the full archive, the full IPFS sovereignty, the full operating principles. The choice is yours.
Renews annually. Cancel anytime through your Stripe receipt. 14-day refund window.
For the founder still in motion — the build years deserve a record.
One payment. Permanent membership. Designate an executor for transfer of access at the end of your life. 14-day refund window.
For the legacy you intend to leave — settled in one act.
What you get: unlimited entries, IPFS pinning per entry, the timeline interface, family-choice succession at death, weekly nudge (optional), all eight Operating Principles applied to your archive.
What you don’t get: ads, tracking, AI training on your content, surprise TOS changes, or cloud storage that vanishes when we pivot. You can cancel any time and your content remains yours and remains retrievable from IPFS — we just stop charging.
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Anticipated questions
How is this different from Day One, Substack, or Apple Journal?
Most journaling platforms claim user ownership but reserve broad licenses to use your content (Substack’s “worldwide non-exclusive royalty-free license,” Day One’s cloud routing through Automattic, social platforms’ promotional sublicenses). We narrow our license to hosting only, forbid AI training in Operating Principle 6, and use IPFS pinning so you can verify your content lives independently of us. Most platforms tell you that you own your content. We let you verify it.
What if I cancel?
Your content remains yours. Every entry's IPFS CID continues resolving on the public gateway network. You lose access to the timeline interface, the weekly nudges, and the family-choice infrastructure, but the raw entries are yours to keep, retrieve, and re-host if you want. Cancellation is one click in your account.
What if Honored Ancestors as a company goes away?
That is the situation Operating Principle 8 is built to address. We are actively recruiting an advisory circle so the archive's continuity does not rest on a single steward. Beyond that, IPFS pinning means even a complete platform shutdown does not erase your content — the CIDs live on the open network. You'd lose the editorial layer; the words survive.
Do you use my entries to train AI?
No. Never. Operating Principle 6 separates AI assistance from authorship: AI tools may help us with editorial work (drafting suggestions, transcription, de-duplication), but submitted memorials are not used as training data for any AI system, internal or external. We do not sell or share your content with third parties for that purpose.
What types of content can I post?
Text entries with one photo per entry at launch. Audio entries (voice notes), video, gallery uploads, and AI-assisted prompts (per Operating Principle 6) are on the roadmap for later phases. Living Legacy is designed for thoughtful long-form — the kind of writing your grandchildren will actually want to read — not real-time microblogging.
When does this launch?
Joining the waitlist now reserves your spot. We are building deliberately and will email you when the gate opens. The infrastructure (IPFS daemon, Operating Principles, design system) is already live — what's being built now is the subscription billing, content creation flow, and executor designation features.
Not ready yet? Join the waitlist
Join the waitlist. We’ll email when the gate opens. No charge today. No spam between now and then.
Questions? Write us — we read every message ourselves.