Every life is a hundred stories. Let’s find yours.
Tell us when you were born and where life has taken you. We’ll turn the history you lived through into a timeline of story prompts — and you tell us which ones you’d actually write.
You marked 0 prompt(s) you’d genuinely write. Sending feedback shares your generated timeline with us so we can study what worked (and catch anything we got wrong).
You found it. Here’s what this page really is, and where it sits in the plan.
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.
Every prompt card has an “I’d Write This” toggle, and the feedback panel asks which marked prompt you’d write first. The core metric is conversion — what share of generated prompts would this person genuinely write? (First session: 67%.) 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.
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.
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.
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.