Storyworth (YC W11) — Record your family stories and print them in beautiful keepsake books
Storyworth is a service that makes it easy for families to record their stories. Each week they email their customers a question about their life, for example "What do you remember of your grandmother?".
Storyworth is a Y Combinator company in the Winter 2011 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Record your family stories and print them in beautiful keepsake books. The founder listed is Nick Baum (Founder) (Y Combinator directory entry, January 17, 2012).
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Storyworth is a service that makes it easy for families to record their stories. Each week they email their customers a question about their life, for example "What do you remember of your grandmother?". Their customers reply by email, and the stories are saved and shared privately with their family. At the end of a year, their stories are bound in a beautiful keepsake book.
Nick Baum
Founder
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One of 124 companies held here in Consumer › Home and Personal.
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