Picture this

Who it is for

A diaspora association wants to save elders' stories. Members upload recordings, others vouch for accuracy, and the archive lives on permanent storage owned by the community with contributors credited forever.

Two ways to own it

What you get

Base$199

$50 deposit to reserve

Upload flow, permanent storage pinning, vouching, curator roles, contributor credits, public archive.

You choose: chain
You choose: name and logo
You choose: accent color
You choose: curator rules

Customfrom $1,500

Built around you

Reshape it entirely: new features, your flows, your brand end to end, integrations you need. We scope it with you.

Everything in Base
Custom features and design
Priority build

Why it is new

What exists today, and what this does differently

What is new

Permanent archives exist; group-curated community memory onchain is less common.

Closest things out there

Arweave-based permanent archives and offchain oral history sites exist; not separately verified for group curation.

Checked with web searches in October 2026. A search is not proof that nothing similar exists, and the market moves fast, so we recheck before every build.

What it unlocks

The human in it

Mines heritage and creativity into lasting ownership.

The Regatta Board

Races it can enter

grant · Gitcoin · upcoming

Gitcoin Grants rounds

quarterly-ish rounds; next round dates unknown

Official page ↗

Cultural public goods; OSS required

Their rule on existing code: Existing open-source projects OK (generally required)

grant · Ethereum Foundation · rolling

Ethereum Foundation ESP

rolling

Official page ↗

Existing projects OK

Their rule on existing code: Existing projects OK

What you own

The whole app, not a starter kit.

The complete Memory Commons app: a community records its elders, members vouch for what is true, and the archive lives on permanent storage the community owns, with teller and recorder credited forever.

Base price · $199

The user app, complete

Every buyer gets the same finished app. Basic branding and copy changes come through a quick form.

Three step onboardingHome

Shown once: record them while they are here, people who were there vouch, the community owns the shelf.

Next action and circle statusHome

One clear next step, memories on the shelf, vouches waiting and the Sunday streak.

Recorder with draft transcriptsRecord

Record, strip location, and get Somali and English drafts marked draft until a fluent member approves.

Consent and name checksRecord

Teller consent recorded before upload, names of living people checked before anything goes public.

Sealed family memoriesRecord

Hard stories encrypted on the phone, with family key holders and an opening year. Always free.

Member vouching with a thresholdCircle

A memory goes on the public shelf after the set number of vouches, each recorded as an attestation.

Two versions kept for disputesCircle

When people disagree, both versions are kept and credited. There is no overwrite button.

Name the faces boardCircle

The archivist suggests, a family member confirms. Gated behind the Association plan.

The shelf with search and receiptsShelf

Search by teller, place or year, filter public, in the circle or sealed, and see what is onchain and what is not.

Family listening linksShelf

Send grandchildren abroad a link with no account needed. Gated behind the Association plan.

Sunday circleSunday

Pick the week's question, join the cushions and keep the shared streak. Sending to all members is gated.

Plans, credits and settingsMe

Pricing from the owner paywall through USDC checkout, your credits on every memory, permissions and vision.

Open the full app demo

Add-on

Owner console

Your admin side: revenue, paywall editor, users, rules and the agent log.

Revenue and paywall editorRevenue

MRR, payouts, incoming USDC, accepted payment methods, and live editing of tier names, prices, gates and the free limit.

House rulesRules

Vouch threshold, seal years, curators, languages, storage network, human transcriber route and storage cap.

Archivist log, storage and roadmapArchivist

What the agent got wrong and how it adapted, storage spend against the cap, and the priced Roadmap.

Top-up

Growth and referrals

Referral and growth mechanics, switched on when you are ready to grow.

Members, cohorts and growth loopsMembers

Shoebox afternoons for neighbouring associations, cohorts and association to association referrals.

The money path, built in

How it earns for you

Keeping a story and sealing a hard one is always free. Associations pay monthly for the tools that bring the whole community in, heritage partners pay for several communities, and storage is passed through at cost.

CircleFreeUp to 25 new memories a year, vouching, sealed family memories, storage at cost

Association$29 a monthUnlimited memories, Sunday prompts to all members, name the faces board, branded public archive and listening links

Heritage partner$149 a monthSeveral communities, bulk import of old tapes, consented exports for researchers

Permanent storage is passed through at cost (roughly $10 per GB once on Arweave). The owner can cap monthly storage spend per association.

Prices are yours to set. Illustrative, not a promise of income.

Growth loops, built in

How it spreads

Family abroad: each kept memory goes to relatives in other countries, who add photos and vouches
The Sunday circle: a weekly question with a shared streak turns a project into a ritual
Shoebox afternoons that start a shelf for a neighbouring association
Association to association referral codes worth a free month for both
Share card when a memory is kept: now 212 of us keep it, forever

Roadmap · build the next phase with us

Where it goes next

v1 included

The full community archive

Record, draft transcripts and consent checks
Member vouching with a threshold
Two versions kept for disputes
Sealed family memories with key holders
The shelf, receipts, Sunday circle and plans

Included

Old tapes and the listening app

Bulk import of cassettes and VHS with chapter detection
A family listening app with no account
WhatsApp voice note intake
Human transcriber marketplace for small languages

Add-on from $500

Linked diaspora archives

Link shelves across cities and countries
Cross archive photo matching, family confirms
Consented research exports for libraries
Community vote before any model training

Add-on from $1,100

The pitch, ready for investors and grant reviewers

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Your 2 minute demo script

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

Make it entirely yours

Custom work from $1,000: your own languages and transcriber routes, integrations with a library catalogue or museum system, branded deployments for a federation of associations, or extra consent workflows. Scoped on a call.

Custom from $1,500

BLUEPRINT

Why it matters and how it really works

The recipe (how it is built, the data, costs, risks, build order, the pitch and the demo script) is unlocked when your app is paid in full.

The need

Diaspora and minority communities are losing their elders' stories every year. Recordings sit on one person's phone, photos in a shoebox nobody can label, and paid websites disappear when the subscription lapses. Nobody has the authority, or the tools, to decide together what is true and who gets credit.

What exists and what is new

Permanent archives on Arweave and similar networks already exist, as do many offchain oral history projects run by libraries and universities. We did not separately verify an existing product for group-curated community memory, so we make a modest claim: what is less common is the combination of member vouching before a memory goes public, elected curators who annotate rather than delete, permanent credit to teller and recorder, and family-sealed encrypted memories, all owned by the community itself. Research verdict: rare, medium novelty.

The data it runs on

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

1.The mission

Let any community keep its own memory: recorded while the elders are here, checked by the people who were there, and owned by the community forever.

2.Why people can't resist it

Your name on it, forever Every memory credits the teller and the recorder by name, and every vouch is visible. Grandchildren can see who kept the story alive.

Truth by people who were there Members vouch for what they know. When people disagree, both versions are kept and credited instead of one being overwritten.

One question every Sunday A weekly prompt brings elders and young people together to record one more story, with a streak the whole circle shares.

3.How it works for real

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

4.Pricing

Cost per use: unlocked when your app is paid in full.

Circle Free

Up to 25 memories and 5 GB, members pay storage at cost per upload.

Association $29 a month

Unlimited members, elected curators, sealed memories, Sunday prompts and a branded public archive.

Heritage partner $149 a month

For libraries, museums and cultural centres: several communities, bulk import of old tapes and exports for researchers with consent.

5.Growth loop

Each preserved memory is shared to family in other countries, who then add their own photos and vouches. The Sunday circle turns a one-time project into a weekly ritual, and other associations ask to start their own shelf.

6.Risks and guardrails

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

7.Build order

Unlocked when your app is paid in full

8.Where this is going

Now
One association, one shoebox, one Sunday at a time.
Next
Every family adds the photos nobody could name, and the circle names them together.
Later
Diaspora communities link their archives across cities, so a story told in Minneapolis meets the photo kept in Nairobi.
The world it builds
Communities that own their own memory, credited to the people who lived it, and not lost when an elder or a website goes.

Costs and tools are estimates at the time of writing. General information only, not legal or financial advice.

OWNER PLAYBOOK

Own it, then chart your voyage

Nine routes from one vessel. Tap a port to open its chart.

Why own Memory Commons

Community memories usually end up on a cloud drive one person pays for, or a Facebook group that can vanish. Memory Commons lets members upload stories, recordings and photos, others vouch for accuracy, and the archive lives on permanent storage owned by the community, with contributors credited forever. Owning it means you are the keeper of the archive tool: your brand, your relationships with associations and your fee for setting up and caring for each archive.

What’s stopping you?

“I can't code. Can I run a permanent archive?”

Yes. Upload flow, permanent storage pinning, vouching, curator roles, contributor credits and the public archive are built. You set curator rules and branding and deploy from your wallet with the guide.

“Permanent storage costs money. Who pays?”

Each upload has a storage cost, usually small. Communities can pay per archive or fund a storage pool. Budget it upfront and tell contributors.

“What about private family stories?”

Not everything belongs on permanent public storage. Let contributors choose public or community only, get consent from anyone recorded, and never upload something you cannot later remove unless the person agreed.

“Will elders use an app?”

Usually a younger relative uploads for them. Run recording days where volunteers help.

“Is it really ours?”

The contracts deploy from your wallet or the community's, storage is permanent, and credits are onchain. You can hand over ownership to the association.

The million-dollar ladder

Associations, diaspora groups, schools and towns pay a setup fee plus a monthly care plan for their archive, with storage costs passed through transparently.

$100

$4,000

$60,000

$85,000

First archive

1 association

$100 per month care plan

A handful of associations

40 associations

$100 per month

Schools, towns and diaspora networks

400 organizations