This is just desperate. But thank you YC for reminding me to add a clause to my will that no beneficiaries of my estate may ever use my likeness rights for any purpose other than i have expressly stated when i am alive! (if they want my money, that is :) )

What is it with this "no person who dies longer than 30 years ago" [sic] clause that has just appeared in the Ts&Cs? If i were to contempate making use of this website, that's exluded virtually all my immediate family, may they RIP. Utterly arbitrary. What could the thinking be behind this?

I realise the crowd here on HN is probably quite young, but i have a very elderly mother. If you could persuade her this is a place to tribute some of her family's memories (and her side is a big family) you'd have something. You know what? If it's stylish, older generations don't begrudge the odd hundred bucks. (i think that's about the threshold of casual purchses for ephemera)

This is still a great idea with no obvious marketing direction. What's the angle? Beyond the obvious. I simply can't tell who it's aimed at. The memories idea is simply too generic it just comes across as nothing but a half - blog, half - photo host, and so is neither. IF you want to get someone to get personal with a site (sure big social sites get personal attention, but i don't see the same interaction & graph with the beloved deceased) you need to make that direct connexion. I've met guys who made small fortunes direct marketing fancy printed histories of family names and such like. Frankly, it's rubbish, but i've met a buyer or two of those things, and they are always proudly shown to me.

One thing i would like to know, imagining i signed up and put a tribute to the only relative of mine to have died within the last 30 years, is will that tribute appear in search indexes? Even if i wish it to be private? I don't have the emaial contacts of 80% of my family to invite them directly to view a page. Besides, if this is going to be a permanent record, some family who are growning up now and who might have no interest in such a page might very well be interested in a few years,

Was there not a FAQ there before?

The Ts&Cs are in fact worse (maybe worse than when i last looked, didn't save a copy*

specifically: "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license"

That looks like a standard clause, but the word "transferrable" is there, which i'm not sure i noticed before. Transferrable, without further definition means to me (who is just some guy who makes a living trading copyright material) believe agreeing to those terms permits the onward sale of licensed IP to other entities. There is no need to add "transferrable" if the company is bought but remains intact. But in that event it sounds as if materials posted to this site could be "repurposed" by an acquirer. Could that mean that in an article about a member of my family who got themselves a bit of public profile, a picture with me in would be "sold" by this website? Of course there are model release concerns, but would that release be implied if i was submitting the pphotos and they happened to include me? I'd suggest that model release couldn't be construed as an impied term, but id'd like these things to be clearly stated. Maybe someone is taking too literally the concept that Ts&Cs "may be changed at will" [sic] by one party. Well, that makes it an adherence contract. Uncertainty as to who deals with legacy materials a family cares for is not good marketing. If th premise of the website is about putting thought and some TLC into tributes to our departed relatives, i'd like to see some comparable care taken over the description, wording, terms and general presentation of the idea.

Look, i want to like this whole idea, but try as i might i don't see how it addresses a need. Ths sort o project really requires user stories. Take my mother for example, she's the aural historian for a diaspora of a family mostly too far flung for easy travel, certainly not at her age. Hw do i tell her what is good about this? Do i have to make it all up, or will here be some "blurb", some marketing pitch i can print and let her read? Do the creators of this website think that's alltogether too crass? Or do they imagine there aren't vast sub-industries already in existence to gean a few dollars from the sentimental? Yeah, i put that very crudely. But sometimes schmaltz works. What sells can be cheap and cheerful, not just naff.