A private home for your whole extended family

Your family has stories you've never heard.

LegacyOS is the private social network for your whole extended family — the cousins, the grandparents, the great-aunt with all the stories. No ads, no algorithm, no strangers. One question a week keeps everyone close, and quietly builds an archive your family keeps forever.

Private by design — no ads, no data selling, no algorithm. Just your family. We're onboarding our very first families now, so this is early.

One question a week Private to your family Free to start
This Sunday's question Rotating · one a week

"What did your grandmother cook that no one makes anymore?"

Aunt Rosa replied: "Her Sunday cornbread. The secret was a spoonful of honey and way too much butter…"

Mom added a photo — Christmas, 1994 📷

Every answer becomes part of your family's private archive — kept forever.
The slow drift

Your family is one group chat away from forgetting itself.

Cousins only see each other at funerals. The stories live in one person's memory. The photos are scattered across a dozen phones. The group chat scrolls away by Tuesday — and the people who remember the most won't be here forever.

01

The stories are leaving.

Every year, the people who remember the old ones get older. The recipes, the origins, the voices — undocumented, they're gone for good.

02

The group chat isn't it.

Photos vanish up the scroll. There's no home, no order — no real way for a 40-person family to actually stay close.

03

Facebook sells you. Ancestry is for the dead.

One mines your family for ads. The other is a tree of people you never met. Neither is a private place for the living family around the table.

One product, three ways in

A question, a vault, and a voice.

You don't set anything up. You just answer a question — and everything else quietly assembles itself around your family.

The Question

One thoughtful question arrives every Sunday. Answer in a text or a voice memo — that's the whole habit. Each answer fills your family's archive, one memory at a time.

The habit

The Vault

Photos, the family tree, recipes, events, time capsules — one private place your whole family builds together. No ads. No algorithm. Yours.

The home

The Avatar

One day, ask the people you've lost what they'd say — in their own words, from the stories they actually told. A way to revisit them, built only from what they chose to share.

The keepsake
The weekly ritual

Three minutes on a Sunday.

1

Ask

A question lands by text — no app to open, no login. Just something worth remembering, sent to whoever's turn it is that week.

2

Answer

Reply with a line or a voice memo. It takes a minute — and it's the kind of thing your family will read for the next fifty years.

3

Keep

It's saved to your family's private vault forever — tagged to the people and places it's about. Over time, it teaches the Avatar.

More than a question a week

The things that actually pull a family back together.

The Sunday question starts the habit — but staying close is the whole point. These are the moments that keep everyone leaning in the other six days.

"You were just mentioned"

When someone tells a story that includes you — the time you fell out of the apple tree, the recipe you swore by — you hear about it. It's the small nudge that turns into a real phone call. The app quietly sends you back to each other.

Memories become conversations

Messages that arrive years from now

Record something for a grandchild's 18th birthday, a wedding day, or a hard day down the road — and it's delivered on that date, in your own voice, long after. A hug you send forward in time.

A message to a person & a date

Everyone's hands on it

Photos, the family tree, the next reunion, the recipes worth keeping — the whole family builds it together. Not one person keeping score, not a group chat nobody scrolls back through. A living place that gets richer every week.

A home you build together

The family year, wrapped

Every December, a look back at the year your family shared — the questions answered, the photos added, the people who showed up. The kind of thing you pass around the table at the holidays and actually talk about.

A yearly ritual to gather around
The reason to start now
"One day, your grandchildren can ask you anything."

Every answer you give becomes something the people who outlive you can hear — in your own voice, from the stories you actually told. Not a resurrection. A way to keep the conversation going.

We build the Avatar with more care than anything else. It only ever speaks from what a person chose to share, never invents what they didn't say, and never pretends to be more than a reconstruction of their own words. A lens onto what someone actually said — never a puppet of who they were.

And quietly…

When the hard day comes, you're already organized.

Somewhere in a year of Sunday questions — "who knows where the deed is?", "which bank was Dad's account with?" — your family answers the very things a lawyer will one day need to know. You never sat down to "do estate planning." You just answered questions about your family. And everything's already in one place. (We help you organize — we never give legal or financial advice.)

Early access

Bring your family home.

We're onboarding our very first families now. Leave your email and we'll send your family's first Sunday question when it's your turn.

You're on the list. We'll be in touch soon. 🌿

No spam, ever. We'll only email you about your family's early access. Private by design.

Founding Families
First cohort · open now
From the founder · U.S. veteran
"I started this organizing my own family — and realized the paperwork was the easy part. Keeping a big family close, and not losing the stories, was the hard part. So I built the thing I needed first."

Aaron — veteran, first-generation builder, and father. Building LegacyOS with his own family, in real time.

Straight answers

The questions everyone asks first.

Is it really private?+
Yes. No ads, no algorithm, no data selling. Only your family can see your family. Privacy is the product, not a settings page — a private space is the whole point.
Do I need my whole family to join at once?+
No. Start with you and one question. Invite people one at a time — and each invite is just a question they can answer by text. No app to download, no account to create. The circle grows from the inside, one branch at a time.
My family is big and complicated — cousins, in-laws, step-family. Does that work?+
That's exactly who it's for. LegacyOS is built for the whole extended family — every branch, with in-laws, step-, half-, and chosen family all first-class. The tree bends to real families instead of forcing them into a neat diagram, and you decide who in the family sees what. This is the home a 40-person clan never had.
What is the Avatar, exactly?+
A way to revisit a loved one's stories in their own words and voice — built only from what they chose to share. It's a reconstruction of their own answers, never a pretense that they're still here, and it never invents things they didn't say. We treat it as sacred, and it's opt-in by the person while they're living.
What does it cost?+
Free to start — keep your family's questions, answers, and tree at no cost. A Vault subscription (unlimited photos, the full recipe and memory archive) comes later, for the family organizer who wants it. No ads, ever. Right now we're building with our first families, so join the waitlist and you'll be early.

The best time to start was twenty years ago.

The next best time is this Sunday.

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