Create and share your digital legacy or that of a loved one.
Our Vision
In the latest times, the concept of our self has broadened through the constant use of emerging technologies. We are able to express ideas and communicate over many social media platforms, build relationships that sometimes are completely virtual but nonetheless important and fulfilling.
What does happen to our digital content when we are not anymore in this world?
Where is our digital legacy?
How will our loved ones and friends remember us?
We think it’s time to start keeping a memory of this important part of everybody’s life, to have a special place where the legacy of the online presence, and more, can be stored.
Everybody wants to be remembered and also be able to remember and celebrate the moments that we shared with our loved ones.
Milestones
1)
In the first months of 2020 we plan to release the MLP (Minimum Lovable Product) with basic and core functionalities:
User Registration and Login
To create the account for remembering loved ones and also keep your personal digital content safe.
Enabling to edit one or more pages connected with the account
Uploading pictures and videos and writing memories/stories will be part of the initial version.
2)
The next step for Upintheskies would be:
Build a digital 3D universe
A universe filled with stars that you can 'own'. The stars will be associated to your account or to the memories you create. You will be also able to 'connect' a set of stars creating a personal 'constellation'.
Defining our pages visibility
Of course we will have the possibility to create specific access to the content we would like to create on Up In The Skies.
- Public
- Friends
- Restricted by invitation
- Private
It’s an amazing way to keep alive the memory of our beloved!
I think this is a great idea, I can imagine many people being interested in this type of service. I would like to understand better the nature of your service: Is it guaranteed hosting of the memory like renting a grave in a cemetery. The use of the blog creating a platform? If so, how is it different from other blogging platforms that also link to social media? Will their be special features specific to the nature of this service?
Thank you
Arjun, thank you for your interesting question.
I would leave the comparison with the grave a little on the side, first because it is never guaranteed for more than a number of years, second because it is just a static representation of our physical life. But what about our soul? Our ideas? Our stories?
This is why we aim to build a digital place where we can store immutably (yes like the blockchain) the creations we spread around the internet. It will be a live place, not a static one, where we can contribute until we will live in this world but also after, through the stories and support of the ones that we knew.
It is a bold project but I am sure that with the help of all the interested people we will succeed.
Enjoy.
Giuseppe
I don’t know where my great great grandparents’ graves are, nor will my children and nor will their children. This means that little by little the memory of my family, of my history is going to eventually fade.
Veterans from the first world war are gone and little by little soon those of the second one will be too and those stories must be heard and remembered.
Amazing and romantic love stories, painful lessons, sacrifices made for loved ones and more in general, life experiences must be remembered.
That is why I adore this idea and hope to see and know more.
Even just to celebrate life.
Thanks Sabrina for the encouragement! We really appreciate it!