Swipe or tap — right to keep, left to pass. Arrow keys work too.
Your picks
You’d write 0 of these. Pick the one you’d write first, then start writing — or send us your timeline so we can study what worked (and catch anything we got wrong).
Since you started a story, sending will include your draft — it helps us see how the coaching worked.
Nothing to write yet
Keep a few prompts in the , then choose the one you’d write first under . It’ll open here.
You’re writing —
A coach, not a ghostwriter — it only ever asks.
Coming soon
Your Life on One Timeline
Every story you keep will live here — plotted by the year you lived it, your life in headlines at a glance. Here’s a first look, built from the prompts you’ve kept.
Hello, Howard. 👋
You found it. Here’s what this page really is, and where it sits in the plan.
What you’re looking at
This is the “Life in Headlines” prototype — a live test of 100 Stories’ opening move: a person gives us two minutes of input (birth date, birthplace, and the places life took them), and we hand back their life as a chaptered timeline of story prompts, each anchoring a real event to their age and place. The bet: specificity unlocks memory. “Tell me about your childhood” freezes people; “You were 9 when the Gulf War lit up the night sky on TV” opens a door.
What the test measures
The prompts come one at a time as a deck — keep (swipe right) or pass (swipe left) on each, then pick which kept one you’d write first. The core metric is conversion — what share of generated prompts would this person genuinely write? We also capture which kinds of prompts convert, whether anything we claimed about someone’s hometown is wrong (one invented fact kills trust), and what the timeline missed entirely.
The content rules (learned from live testing, encoded in the engine)
Doors, not biographies — every prompt asks, never asserts; a miss should feel “not applicable,” never “wrong.” Participation beats witness — events that made people do something outconvert big headlines. Firsts beat magnitudes — first vote beats biggest election. Never invent local events — local texture is gold, but only when true.
Where it fits
100 Stories is single-player first: write up to 100 stories of your life, see them on your timeline, print the book that matters to your family. That loop has to work for one person alone — the social layer (lives connected through shared time, place, and theme — the graph you sketched) comes only after the corpus exists, because that graph is the moat, not the launch product. This prototype is the seed of Phase 1’s onboarding and the future free, shareable top-of-funnel artifact.
Status
Invite-gated pilot. Surface frozen until five feedback sessions are in. Your timeline counts — go fill in the form, mark honestly, and pick the story you’d write first. Welcome aboard.