Live data from Hacker News

Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

posterity.life

51–60 of 93 posts

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#51
post #40

> Free 15-day trial, then $29.99/year Time to start taking those big risks I always wanted to take. There are some real savings here if I manage to die in the next two weeks, plus I can still keep getting things done! Will I need to keep paying to keep getting things done after I die? Can posterity automate that too? How can I cancel my service after death if it fails to deliver, or say, I, as a ghost become dissatis…

>How can I cancel my service after death if it fails to deliver, or say, I, as a ghost become dissatisfied with it?

I guess it should cancel subscription after a successful trigger? A self-killing business?

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#52
post #51
post #40

> Free 15-day trial, then $29.99/year Time to start taking those big risks I always wanted to take. There are some real savings here if I manage to die in the next two weeks, plus I can still keep getting things done! Will I need to keep paying to keep getting things done after I die? Can posterity automate that too? How can I cancel my service after death if it fails to deliver, or say, I, as a ghost become dissatis…

>How can I cancel my service after death if it fails to deliver, or say, I, as a ghost become dissatisfied with it? I guess it should cancel subscription after a successful trigger? A self-killing business?

You don’t have to worry about that, we’re we’ll positioned to know if that happens, and the account is automatically memorialized with read only access to those you shared things with.

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#53
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been thinking about this topic after I got married, and realized that I wanted to back up my wedding photos for 100+ years so my great-great-grandkids have the originals. I wonder if this is a good use of blockchain technology. The company sets things up in such a way where there are resources and mechanisms to keep things running after the company collapses. Theoretically, as long as the s3 bills are paid, thin…

> how do people store data for 100+ years? Print it.

Don't do this. I somehow ended up with all the pictures of family going back to the 1800s. I have 5 suitcases full that I now have to scan.

Find the best representative photos, and upload them to Geni.com, Ancestry.com, MyHerritage.com, 23andme, etc. They are bound to survive from one of those sources.

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#55

This kind of product/service is launched every few years, but unless users hurry they find they typically outlive them. It would be very interesting to see a post-mortem of the various "schedule stuff to happen after you die" projects, at least one of which I believe was YC funded.

most of those I've seen have been shut down your other services after you die, which is really a subset of schedule things after you die.

The ones I'm thinking of were variations on "send these emails after my death is somehow confirmed"

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#56
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> how do people store data for 100+ years? Print it.

Don't do this. I somehow ended up with all the pictures of family going back to the 1800s. I have 5 suitcases full that I now have to scan. Find the best representative photos, and upload them to Geni.com, Ancestry.com, MyHerritage.com, 23andme, etc. They are bound to survive from one of those sources.

That's why you pick the best five from each year and print them in a small acid-free paper book.

You keep the gigantic digital repository as long as feasible (I burn to M-Discs), but for accessibility and long-term, pick your favorites in a way we have good reason to think can last for hundreds of years.

Re: Show HN: Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife

#57
My mom was a hippie, and she always promised me that after she died she'd figure out a way to tell me what it's like. I was in prison when she passed. Leading up to that first holidays after she passed sucked. Thanksgiving, horrible. Four months after her death, and approaching Xmas, I get a package at mail call. WTF? All of my family/friends had fallen off, so by that point it was only my mom who had still sent me letters. I open it, and it was a book on 'what the afterlife might look like'. She had figured out how to keep her word, and let me know what it was like after her passing. I don't know how it got shipped it came as an Amazon gift but with no identifying info. Her last 6 months she wasn't in a state to arrange anything, so she would have had to plan this like 10 months earlier. But having this gift, that was also an inside running kind of joke between us, oh man, that was so friggen awesome.

I'm not doing great myself, and my boy just won't take it serious so we can communicate stuff so this will be super helpful. I have probably thousands of dollars just in re-sellable music software licenses that I need a way to communicate to him, and I can't even get him to bookmark a shared Google doc (funny how relationships go when you completely and utterly fail people and betray them by going to prison).

Post reply on HN