headstone.live: Your digital memorial

Graveyard with QR codes on gravestones and pictures hovering over them

"The Living Owe It To Those Who Can No Longer Speak To Tell Their Stories" – Czeslaw Milosz

What if each grave had a headstone with an embedded QR code that linked to a memorial page for the deceased. That memorial had everything that was known about that person.

How would it work?

You enter the name of the person and their social links: twitter, instagram, facebook, youtube, linkedin even, and any websites they had. A bot will go and scrape everything it can find on those links and profiles and initially create a homepage with the following things:

1. A link tree: all social and professional links of the deceased

2. A timeline of their whole online life (you can fill in the gaps with events that happened offline)

3. A gallery of their images

The bot will then digest all the scraped data and generate additional pages from what it learned about the person:

1. /biography – person's passions and goals, favorite books, ideals, foods, hardships, major sicknesses, etc. This page will not just record an account of these things, it will take a storytelling approach and will write in 1st person point of view as if the deceased is writing an autobiography.

Product design

We will follow a minimalistic approach.

Each generation will cost $1.

It will also have an option to generate your own memorial while you are alive, that will be generated on your online presence up until that point and will keep observing for updates by running the bot once every three month. This will require a subscription for $4 per year or lifetime payment of $160 – 40 years worth, even though the memorial will stay live forever, even after you die.

Each memorial will have a username.headstone.live that can be customized. You can even buy a custom domain like username.com if you want.

There will be an advanced feature of personifying the deceased into an AI bot. The bot will reply exactly like the deceased person. But to keep it sustainable and affordable, we'll gamify the experience. By default, the deceased would be sleeping (as in their grave). You could wake them up to talk to them. You would be able to talk to the deceased for an hour and then they will go back to sleep for the next 23 hours. Personification will be an expensive feature and it's cost will be offloaded to your visitors. They will be asked to pay $1 to wake up the dead.

After you generate a memorial, you can order a gravestone badge for $20.

QR code badge for the gravestone

Marketing

The target audience will be GenZ who will generate memorials for their deceased best friends, loved ones, siblings, and parents.

The landing page of headstone.live will have a call to action (Generate for $1) and a showcase of community-generated memorials.

The first step in the engagement ladder will be done through ads. People will land on the landing page and see previously generated extremely detailed memorials. Each memorial will have a call to action section at the bottom that urges them to generate their own memorial for $1. They will click it and the generation will start loading and ask for their credit card details. They put them in and it takes them to their memorial's homepage where they see a complete timeline of their life events first, and below it, a beautiful gallery of their best images. They will be able to edit whatever that they want, add or remove. It will be amazing how the bot doesn't miss a thing about them on the internet.