What did your father never tell you?

The book your kids will read someday.

Each child gets their own book. You answer one prompt at a time, typed or spoken. Eight chapters. Seventy-two prompts. The keepsake your parents never wrote, written by you.

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Parents mean to write things down. They never do. By the time they would have, the moments are gone.

Why now

Twenty years is closer than you think.

Your kids forget the years before five. The bedtime stories. The way you carried them. The version of you that loved them when they were still small enough to disappear in a towel.

Your parents' voices are an answering machine away from gone. Whatever your father didn't write down, you'll never read.

Write it down while you're still the one who remembers.

How it works

Three steps. Anywhere fromtwo minutes to all night.

A prompt with your child’s name.

Most prompts speak to your child by name. The earliest house. The day they were born. The lesson you’d hand them now.

Talk to your child.

Type it, or tap the mic and say it like you’re at the kitchen table. Your words go in as you said them. Keep them word for word, or let the app take out the ums, false starts and repeats and fix the punctuation. It’s told not to change a word, and you can put it back.

The book builds itself.

Each prompt fills in one of eight chapters. No streaks. No homework. The book grows when you do.

A sample page

What it actually reads like.

Chapter 1 · Where I Come From

What was the house you grew up in like?

The house was small. Yellow siding, a cracked driveway, a maple in the front that turned the whole street red every October. Your grandpa always parked his truck so the headlights touched the kitchen window. He liked your grandma to know he was home before he came through the door. I used to think that was practical. Now I think he just wanted her to feel held.

I think about that now, walking up to our porch with you on my shoulder. The maple isn’t there. The cracked driveway isn’t there. But the small thing, wanting someone to know you’re back, that part traveled.

A sample. Yours will be in your words, with your kid’s name.

The chapters

Eight chapters that form a life.

Where I Come From

“What was the house you grew up in like? What did it smell like?”

Who I Was Before You

“Describe the version of yourself at 18. What would that person think of your life now?”

Love & Partnership

“How did you meet your child’s other parent? What was your first impression?”

The Day Everything Changed

“What were you most afraid of in the weeks before they were born?”

Watching You Grow

“What’s a tiny moment (not a milestone, just a moment) that you never want to forget?”

What I Want You to Know

“What’s the most important thing life has taught you?”

Letters to You

“A letter for when life gets really hard.”

The World I Hope You Build

“What kind of person do you hope they become? Not career. Character.”

72 prompts per book. Each one personalized to your relationship: dad, mom, grandparent, aunt, uncle.

Who it’s for

Every parent. Every relation.

The prompts adapt. A grandmother answering “What was their dad like as a kid?” is a different question than a father answering it.

For dads

Letters to Roman

For moms

Letters to Roman

For grandmas

A Grandmother’s Legacy for Roman

For grandpas

Stories for Roman

For aunts

From Your Aunt: Letters to Roman

For uncles

From Your Uncle: Letters to Roman

Each book takes your child’s actual name.

The keepsake

How you keep it.

Digital

The PDF keepsake

Free

included with the app

Your book as a PDF you can save, share and back up. On iPhone the app builds it; on the web it opens in your browser’s print dialog, where you save it as a PDF.

Every answer you’ve finished, typeset
Edit any answer, anytime
Cleaned up or word for word, whichever you chose when you wrote it
One book per child, each in their name

Hardcover

The printed book

Planned

not for sale yet. No date, no waitlist.

A printed hardcover, made from the same book you built in the app. Details and price when it exists.

Made from the same book you built in the app
You’ll see the price before you pay, per the terms

Built to last

The phone you wrote it onwill be obsolete in five years.The file you export todaywill still open in fifty.

And one day, their kid will read it.

Questions

What you’re probably wondering.

Do I have to do this every day?

No cadence. No streaks. Skip days, skip weeks. The prompts wait. The book grows when you write.

What if I can’t write?

Then talk. Tap the mic, tell the story, and the app writes it down as you said it. Keep it word for word, or let the cleanup take out the ums and repeats. It doesn’t rewrite you.

I’m not a writer. Is this going to read well?

It already does. People who think they can’t write are often the most honest ones. The prompts ask for specifics (the smell of your childhood house, the day they were born), not literary brilliance. Specificity is what readers remember twenty years later.

Will it still sound like me in 20 years?

Yes. The book is your words, in your order, the way you said them. The app doesn’t write it for you and doesn’t smooth you into someone else. Export a copy once in a while: the app keeps your book while your account is open, and the file is yours for good.

Can I make a book for more than one child?

Yes. Each child gets their own book, in their name. Prompts adapt to your relationship and to the child you’re writing to.

What if I don’t finish?

A partial book is still a keepsake. Export it whenever you’re ready. The book grows when you do.

How much does the hardcover cost?

There isn’t one yet. A printed edition is planned, and when it’s real you’ll see the price before you pay. The PDF export is free and in the app today.

Is this morbid?

It’s the opposite. Writing these letters is how you stay present with your kid now, not just leaving something behind. The book is for them later. The practice is for you today.

Start the book your kidswill read someday.

It costs nothing to begin. The first prompt is waiting.

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