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Announcing Remembral - a project I built because I needed it, and now I’m opening it up to everyone

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on something very personal for the last few months, and today I finally feel ready (and nervous!) to share it.

It’s called Remembral - private space that help people set instructions and guidance for their loved ones for their untimely absence. The way I've built it - there is no PII involved except email. Vault creator will get periodic check-ins and if they fail to confirm checkin linked dependents will receive emails. (Note: I am still figuring out how to send out emails cost effectively for reminders and email verifications)

The truth is: I built this because I needed it myself. I’m the “go-to” person in my family for anything financial or technical, and it terrified me (due a incident sometime ago) to think that if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, my loved ones would be left scrambling in the dark. So I started building a tool that solved my own problem and it slowly turned into something

This is also my first real attempt at building something and bringing it to the world. I’m not a funded startup. No team. Just me, trying to create something meaningful.

A bit of transparency:

Remembral currently costs me around 30 dollars / month. It’s not a huge amount, but it’s also not something I can sustain indefinitely on my own. I built this because I believe it’s genuinely useful, so I’ll keep it running as long as I’m able to.

So for now:

👉 Remembral is completely free to use.

👉 And if anyone finds value in it and wants to help keep it running, donations or support are genuinely appreciated, but absolutely not required.

I’m sharing Remembral here not as a startup pitch, but as a person hoping this tool can help someone else the way it helped me. If even a few people find it useful or give me feedback, that would mean the world.

Happy to answer any questions, and honestly thank you for reading this far. ❤️

Note: I'll open source it soon (probably by next weekend)

https://remembral.vercel.app/

— A very excited, very nervous indie founder

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