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Show HN: Heirlooms – pass your legacy to family after stop breathing

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Hi HN,

Since many of you also thought about : is my family able to easily find my password or important information after I stop breathing?

I build this website for assist all of us able to keep necessary information for family/friends, even business partner.

I would like to have some comments and suggestions, thank you. [https://heirlooms.app/]

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Is this for one person, one family unit (2 adults), or can this be extended over a wider family (my own, parents close to EoL, brother, etc.)?

Because the one person scenario is incredibly limiting by itself, and I would argue that the 2 adult option can be the most useful for a couple whose lives are very intertwined.

Hello, thank you for the question. Currently I only do per person, because I was assumed some of information only want specific family member to know. but while you deliver password to unlock your data, it can send to multiple people. do you think this ok for you? thank you.

I'm going to die N decades from now, where N is hopefully "several" or a similar order of magnitude.

if I pay you for this service...what stops you from closing up shop a year or two from now, and just walking away with the money?

Thank you for this question. I won't give an answer like "I won't close up" or "walking away with money". What my plan is try to make this website alive as long as I can, but if really sad story happen, my back up plan is allow every user directly download PDF(after unlock by user itself since we dont have it). That is why I am trying to collecting more user experience and fix it until fulfill of majority users. thank you.

For those of us with a technical bent, the answer would be to allow self-hosting even on a removable device. That way, you could go titsup on your own, and as long as the system is simple and has no need to be upgraded over long time scales (compiled cross-platform binaries instead of scripting languages that constantly go EoL), said software would continue to run for the user indefinitely.

Hell, I have a video game package from 1991 - Moraff Games - that still works perfectly fine on the latest Win11 for Workstations (44C/88T, 256Gb). So it can be done, especially if you craft the installer to be a suggestion rather than a requirement (some really old ones no longer work right, and I have to manually extract and install those programs).

Thank you for advise. do you recommend that can keep it as HTML if someone really needs it? I already standby for this function but was for "non-AI" version.

Exports should remain encrypted, for protection.

What should accompany the export is a cross-platform binary that has no dependencies (a 2026 binary could still run on Windows 18 in 2045, for example), and whose sole purpose is to decrypt and display that export once the proper credentials (password, etc.) have been provided. With options to print or provide access to copy-paste.

this is good to learn! I will take it as a important note and process, but this service will at least survived 5 years for sure. can you also try to use it? if this is a useful service for you? thank you.

would like to have some encourage for my first project & first 50 user will be free as a founding user!

You try, we follow

please follow me to try and advise if some questions missing.

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