A new kind of memorial

Build your legacy.
Let the community carry it forward.

UP is a platform where people document their unfinished work while alive — and when they pass, their profile becomes a memorial where the community steps in to complete what they left behind.

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How UP Works

A platform with two states — one for the living, one for the remembered.

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Build your profile

While you're alive, create your legacy profile. Post your unfinished projects, final wishes, and life stories — as many or as few as you like.

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Connect with successors

The community discovers your work. Interested people reach out. You guide them while you can — sharing knowledge, context, and care.

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Your profile becomes a memorial

When you pass, your profile transitions to memorial state. Everything you shared is preserved. The community can leave memories and tributes.

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Your work lives on

Successors pick up the torch — completing your projects, fulfilling your wishes, and marking each one done. Your legacy is preserved in what they make.

See What a Memorial Profile Looks Like

Eleanor M. Voss, botanist. Born 1944, Portland, Oregon. She passed in 2024 and left three unfinished projects behind.

In Memoriam
1944 – 2024
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Eleanor M. Voss

Botanist · Author · Keeper of seeds

3
Projects left
1
Fulfilled
24
Memories shared

Oregon State University, 1968–2019. Eleanor spent her life cataloguing the native plants of the Willamette Valley. She left behind a seed library, a half-written book, and an unfinished field guide.

View her full profile

What Happened After

The successors who picked up the torch — and what they made of it.

Continued Robert Nakamura's water purification device

"I never imagined my engineering degree would lead somewhere like this. Robert and I speak every Sunday over video call. He corrects my CAD drawings and tells me about his grandchildren. The device is now being tested in two villages outside Nakuru. I feel like I'm working on something that will outlast both of us."

Outcome Field testing began in Kenya, 8 months after first contact. Robert attended the pilot remotely via video call.
Continued Lucia Ferreira's family recipe cookbook

"I've published food writing for years, but helping Lucia gave me something I'd been missing — a sense of permanence. We spent four months cooking together over video, measuring everything exactly as her mother had taught her. Her nonna's ragù is now in print. Lucia cried when she held the first copy. So did I."

Outcome The cookbook was self-published in three languages. Lucia gifted copies to every family member at Christmas.
Continued James Okoye's mathematics curriculum

"When I read James's curriculum I recognised immediately what he'd been trying to do — teach children to think, not just compute. We piloted it with my class last term. My students started asking questions I'd never heard before. James flew to India to see it. He stood at the back of my classroom and wept quietly."

Outcome The curriculum is now being reviewed by two district education boards for wider adoption.

Be the First to Know

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