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Show HN: Preserve your families legacy for centuries

6 points by VarunPotti 3y ago

Hey everyone, creator of clann.app here. I will try to keep this short but at the end of the day you will be forgotten one day. I know this feels sad and it really is. I mean ask yourself who your great-grandfather is, you don't know! Heck, we don't even know how they lived their life. Now their generation had very little access to computers let alone the internet. The problem isn't about the future knowing who you are but them understanding how your generation lived their life. Further we often tend to forget about our extended family. I am from India and after every single exam someone from my extended family who I met ONCE in my life would ask me my results. I would rarely know how they are related to me. This is a problem. Further dinner table discussions about how people are related to me are always a pain. Why? Sometimes even my parents don't know! The Solution? What if you could get your entire family into the digital world, Yes, it is possible! Upload images (feature name: memories) of your family today so that your future generations would truly appreciate how much their lives have improved. Clann is built for intergenerational use and has a robust invites system (feature name: groups, invites) so that you only allow your extended family members to see a certain family. If you have any queries you can contact me on @PottiVarun. Think of Clann as Figma for families. Get your entire family on there, Invite other families (relatives) and link each family by how they are related. Everything is in a clean flow char based UI. The link is https://clann.app https://clann.app. You and I need to be remembered for the coming centuries. We need to leave a mark on this world. Lets leave a small digital footprint so that the future understands and appreciates their world! Goodbye!

chillbill 3y ago
This is bs people… don’t fall for this crap. Just keep physical photo albums and digitize everything, there’s a million and one backup solutions that allow you to control your physical disk or even cloud based solutions that are as easy as drag and drop. Never trust some random service with your valuable data and memories. —- Side note: if author is worth their salt they would’ve posted this with their main account, not a throwaway with 39 karma, this means -at best- that this is a weekend project and the dude doesn’t want this to fall back to them if it turns out to be crap. You don’t want to upload your real stuff some some crummy copy pasta weekend hack bullshit.
- KomoD 3y ago
  It's their main account, with their real name, it's not a throwaway. Yes it's misleading but relax, it's a 15 year old.
  - chillbill 3y ago
    I would’ve worded it differently if I had known it’s a 15 yo, sorry about that OP. But the gist is still true, it doesn’t hurt to hear the truth raw every once in a while.
    - VarunPotti 3y ago
      Yep, definitely helps me in the long run. I noticed my flaws in the wording and I am sorry about that. Will be working on my flaws and learn from my mistakes.
  - VarunPotti 3y ago
    Open to feedback on how to better word my products and product development in general!
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Furthermore there is no internet company I would trust to keep my data for 100 years. (Because what internet things don't shut down after like 10 years OR require a recurring payment that might fail). That is a wild claim! The only remotely possible way might be blockchain (but that'll be stupidly expensive) or more simply, a normal public blog that gets indexed by the internet archive.
  - VarunPotti 3y ago
    True, could have worded it better. I still think how I can have the data preserved for more than 100 years, I haven't yet found a way. I did find a few methods but I felt that they would put the privacy at risk. One was using blockchain (which as you told is stupidly expensive) and the other one was using distributed databases like https://gun.eco/ https://gun.eco/ with a few nodes hosted around the world (kinda like nostr). Even if the platform manages to stay alive for 50 years is a big W in my book! The older generations know about their histories but they never tell the newer generations because time is limited. This leads to the newer generations not knowing their roots.
beardyw 3y ago
Some reassuring words and a sign up .... this is HN.
bmitch2112 3y ago
https://www.wikitree.com/ https://www.wikitree.com/ is essentially this but free and community driven.
ksherlock 3y ago
Before the computers and the internet, some people kept diaries. (A diary is like a blogging with pen and paper). So yes, I know that on August 30, 1823 great^n grampa spent the day haying. Because he wrote it down on paper. Maybe -- if your blog survives 200 years -- your great^n grandchildren will look back and know that you spent August 30, 2023 docking a grunt file or whatever. And will probably be very confused.
matthewtse 3y ago
Hey VarunPotti, My feedback would be that there isn't really a "shiny product". The screenshots show a basic graph of a few members with a single trip put in there. There's nothing compelling to cause me to want to use the app. Maybe you could show a much bigger family tree, with actual photos of people, and lots of photos of trips, and show how this could give you a feeling of wholeness at having such a large family and their relationships shown in one place.
- VarunPotti 3y ago
  Agree with you, might get pictures of my own family to be shown once all my relatives start using it.

6 points by VarunPotti 3y ago

chillbill 3y ago

This is bs people… don’t fall for this crap. Just keep physical photo albums and digitize everything, there’s a million and one backup solutions that allow you to control your physical disk or even cloud based solutions that are as easy as drag and drop. Never trust some random service with your valuable data and memories. —- Side note: if author is worth their salt they would’ve posted this with their main account, not a throwaway with 39 karma, this means -at best- that this is a weekend project and the dude doesn’t want this to fall back to them if it turns out to be crap. You don’t want to upload your real stuff some some crummy copy pasta weekend hack bullshit.

KomoD 3y ago
It's their main account, with their real name, it's not a throwaway. Yes it's misleading but relax, it's a 15 year old.
- chillbill 3y ago
  I would’ve worded it differently if I had known it’s a 15 yo, sorry about that OP. But the gist is still true, it doesn’t hurt to hear the truth raw every once in a while.
  - VarunPotti 3y ago
    Yep, definitely helps me in the long run. I noticed my flaws in the wording and I am sorry about that. Will be working on my flaws and learn from my mistakes.
- VarunPotti 3y ago
  Open to feedback on how to better word my products and product development in general!
quickthrower2 3y ago
Furthermore there is no internet company I would trust to keep my data for 100 years. (Because what internet things don't shut down after like 10 years OR require a recurring payment that might fail). That is a wild claim! The only remotely possible way might be blockchain (but that'll be stupidly expensive) or more simply, a normal public blog that gets indexed by the internet archive.
- VarunPotti 3y ago
  True, could have worded it better. I still think how I can have the data preserved for more than 100 years, I haven't yet found a way. I did find a few methods but I felt that they would put the privacy at risk. One was using blockchain (which as you told is stupidly expensive) and the other one was using distributed databases like https://gun.eco/ https://gun.eco/ with a few nodes hosted around the world (kinda like nostr). Even if the platform manages to stay alive for 50 years is a big W in my book! The older generations know about their histories but they never tell the newer generations because time is limited. This leads to the newer generations not knowing their roots.

beardyw 3y ago

Some reassuring words and a sign up .... this is HN.

bmitch2112 3y ago

https://www.wikitree.com/ https://www.wikitree.com/ is essentially this but free and community driven.

ksherlock 3y ago

Before the computers and the internet, some people kept diaries. (A diary is like a blogging with pen and paper). So yes, I know that on August 30, 1823 great^n grampa spent the day haying. Because he wrote it down on paper. Maybe -- if your blog survives 200 years -- your great^n grandchildren will look back and know that you spent August 30, 2023 docking a grunt file or whatever. And will probably be very confused.

matthewtse 3y ago

Hey VarunPotti, My feedback would be that there isn't really a "shiny product". The screenshots show a basic graph of a few members with a single trip put in there. There's nothing compelling to cause me to want to use the app. Maybe you could show a much bigger family tree, with actual photos of people, and lots of photos of trips, and show how this could give you a feeling of wholeness at having such a large family and their relationships shown in one place.

VarunPotti 3y ago
Agree with you, might get pictures of my own family to be shown once all my relatives start using it.