A quiet place for a life.
Obit is a small product for a hard week. It makes the page you wish existed for the person who died. The one you can send to family far away. The one the family can add to. The one that doesn’t look like everyone else’s.
We started Obit because the existing options sit in two extremes. On one side, a stiff obituary template handed over by a funeral director. On the other, a giant networked memorial site full of ads, “sponsor a memorial” widgets, and tribute paywalls. Neither feels like a place a family would actually want to write together.
What Obit tries to be instead: a writing workspace first, a shared page second. Private by default. Calm. Not selling anything during the worst week.
What we believe.
- Private by default. Memorials are private working space until you choose to share them. We do not index pages, sell ads, or surface them on a public directory.
- A page is paid for once. Not a subscription that lapses when you forget about it. Family plan keeps the page online for two years. Household, for ten. Forever (a planned tier) keeps it for as long as Obit exists.
- No data resale. The information families add here is theirs. We don’t sell it, train models on it, or hand it to advertisers.
- Stewardship matters. Memorials outlive their creators. Obit has groundwork for naming a backup steward and transferring a memorial to family.
Where we are.
Obit is in early beta. The product is real, the families using it are real, and we’re building openly. If something feels rough or missing, write to us. We read everything.
Reach us at hello@obit.app.