In 2011, my wife and I moved from Israel to America with our sons, Amir and Liran. After just four months in NYC, our apartment looked like an art tornado had touched down. I had no idea kids could create so many (amazing) paintings and drawings in such a short period of time. And then I started to think about it. I’d been snapping tons of photos since we arrived: first day of school, visits to the MOMA, face painting at the street fair…and my dropbox was just as cluttered and disorganized as my apartment! The photos turned from moments to files, much like the artwork turned from art to piles of papers.
What bothered me wasn’t the big mess in my kitchen and in the cloud, it was the fact that I wasn’t able to effectively share everything in that mess with my family abroad. Even when I did managed to share a photo of an art project on facebook, or a picture of them in a soccer game over email, my kids didn’t get to experience the joy it brought to their loved ones in Israel.
Talking to other parents at school and the playground, I realized I wasn’t alone. Everyone else was overwhelmed by the massive amounts of photos they were taking and art projects they were keeping. They didn’t share it. They didn’t know what to do with it. And some felt really guilty because they’d been throwing it out (or deleting it!)
So, I gathered a team of tech-savvy parents and we started to create something that could simply and effectively save the magic of childhood: Keepy! It’s a memory playlist, a way for people to build a private timeline for each one of their kids. It’s a tool for the heart.
We have created Keepy so families around the world can CONNECT and build their kids’ memory playlists and experience the magic of childhood through photos, videos, voiceovers, school work, art work, and mementoes for now, for later and for ever.
Checkout Keepy on http://www.keepy.me
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