u/ForeveriesEU

Hello, fellow Europeans!

I just launched Foreveries, an app for storing and sharing memories with people we actually care about. It's designed for small circles, just for our loved ones.

A few deliberate choices that set it apart:

• Zero notifications. I'm tired of apps fighting for our attention. Open the app when you feel like it, the memories from your loved ones will be there. No FOMO-inducing engineering. No doom-scrolling.
• No automatic backup. You decide what goes in. I strongly believe the act of choosing is part of what makes a memory a memory.
• Bootstrapped. I've worked at venture-funded companies and watched them rot once shareholder interests took over. Foreveries will live on paid subscriptions (coming soon) instead, so the people I'm building for are the customers, not the shareholders.
• Fully EU-hosted, and on bare metal! Servers are with Hetzner in Sweden, with backup in Germany. No US cloud, no lock-in. Bare metal is great for freedom, and for lots of real engineering challenges :D
• Encrypted at rest and in transit. Data is encrypted before it touches disk (libsodium), and with strict TLS 1.3 when in transit. Opt-in end-to-end encryption (E2EE) is on the roadmap; the reason it isn't the default is that true E2EE shifts key custody to the user, and losing keys means losing memories forever, which contradicts the core promise of this project.

Available on iOS and Android. First 200 sign-ups get 15 GB free for a year.

For those using the iOS app, due to how background processes work, you'll have to Data Sync > Sync Now to ensure photos are uploaded to servers.

As of today we only support photos, but other content types (e.g. video, text) are coming soon.

Happy to talk about any of it in the comments :)