About
Why MyLifePapers exists
I do not have a dramatic founding story. Mine starts with someone else’s.
One day I watched a video of a widow describing the days and weeks right after her husband’s passing. Not the grief. The paperwork. She called it a scavenger hunt: passwords she did not have, insurance policies she could not find, accounts she did not know existed. All of it at the worst possible time of her life, with toddlers to care for.
This was a Bay Area family, her husband in tech. They had done nothing wrong. There was software for everything in their lives except the moment a family has to carry on without the person who kept track of it all.
I have never met her, but her story rang a bell in my own house. I could not have listed everything my husband had either. Our accounts, insurance, and documents were scattered across apps, inboxes, and paper folders, and each of us really only knew our own half. We are careful people, and it still was not organized in the one way that would matter.
I am a data architect. Organizing information so the right people can find it is what I do all day. So I started with my own family’s scavenger hunt, and MyLifePapers is the tool I wished someone had handed both of our families years earlier.
The commitments
Your records stay yours. Everything is stored on your own devices, end to end encrypted. I cannot read your records, and neither can anyone else. That is how the software is built, not a policy I could quietly change. And you should not take that on faith from a stranger on the internet, me included. How to verify the encryption yourself walks you through checking it on your own device.
It works for the person you share it with. Most organizing tools work for the organizer. MyLifePapers is designed for the family member who did not set it up, on the day they need to find the home insurance policy on their own.
You pay once. $99 for your whole household, on all your devices, with everything included. No subscription, because your family’s records should not disappear when a monthly payment lapses.
This is built to stay. MyLifePapers is bootstrapped. There are no investors, so there is no pressure to chase growth, add subscriptions, or push you toward anything. The business is deliberately simple: households pay once for software that runs on their own devices, and that is enough to sustain it. Nothing here depends on funding rounds to survive. A tool that holds your family’s records has to be built for decades, and this one is.
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