At a funeral, three or four people speak. Everyone else drives home carrying something they never got to say. Folksee gathers those into one reel — from wherever people are, in their own time.
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A service has room for a handful of voices. But the neighbour, the old colleague, the friend from forty years ago — they all know something about this person that the family has never heard.
Distance, health, cost, notice too short to book a flight. People who would have come and couldn't can still say what they came to say.
Standing at a lectern in front of a grieving family is beyond a lot of people. Alone with a phone, they manage it — and they can start over as many times as they need.
Most of what people know about someone dies with the people who knew them. This is a way to keep some of it while everyone is still here to tell it.
“Share a memory” is a hard thing to answer on the spot. A specific question is easier, and it's what gets people talking about the person rather than about the loss.
Played at the funeral or the celebration of life, so the people who couldn't travel are still in the room in some form.
Not shown to anyone. Just gathered quietly and given to a widow, or to the children, for whenever they're ready to watch it.
A year on, ten years on, or the day of a wedding they should have been at. Grief doesn't keep to a schedule and neither does this.
One day someone will want to know what their grandfather was actually like. A reel of people who knew him, in their own voices, answers that better than a photograph.
It can be. Most reels fill up within a few days, and you can keep it open afterwards — people who missed the deadline can still add something, and the reel updates.
No. They tap the link and record in their phone or computer browser. That matters when you're sending it to people of every age and comfort level with technology.
They can stop and re-record as many times as they need. Nobody sees the takes they don't send, and there's no time pressure sitting there watching them.
Only the people you invite. It's private and isn't listed or searchable anywhere.
Yes, and people do. An anniversary, a birthday, a wedding they should have been at. The stories don't stop being worth collecting.
No. Folksee assembles it for you. You won't be sitting up at night trying to work out video software.
Your first 5 contributors are free. After that, credits come in packs: 10 for $10, 25 for $22, 50 for $40, or 100 for $75. One credit covers one person, however many messages they record.
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