EchoVault, an app that interviews you and answers as you after death
Details
- External ID
- 49395297
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- EchoVault, an app that interviews you and answers as you after death
- Website domain
- apple.com
- Launched
- Aug. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 9
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5309139784946236
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- healthcare operations and clinical workflows
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- digital legacy chatbot from interviews
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The system consists of a mobile app frontend, a structured interview Q&A flow stored in a backend database, and integrations with third-party LLM, voice cloning (ElevenLabs), and avatar APIs.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Gmail archive for personal data collection, General LLM-based personal assistants
Concerns raised: Privacy and trust with sensitive personal information, Ethical concerns about recreating deceased persons (Black Mirror comparison), Product perceived as dystopian technology with lack of social responsibility, Unclear value proposition beyond afterlife use case
Feature requests: Focus on interactive memory archive over afterlife simulation, WhatsApp integration for ongoing memory capture, Photo and story submission capabilities, Behavior modeling to understand personal evolution over decades
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 101 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #54 of 102 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 296 days after the earliest competitor.
- EchoLive · hn · 2026-03-21 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- I analyzed 8k near-death experiences with AI and made them listenable · hn · 2025-12-04 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- life-recorder · github · 2026-09-11 · 298 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying · hn · 2026-07-01 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Voquill - Voice AI for Pathologists · yc · 2026-05-20 · 4 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Jot, a menu bar app that catches a thought before it's gone · hn · 2026-07-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Quartz · hn · 2026-07-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Evergrove: Interoperability for work comp · yc · 2026-08-26 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.