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Most people haven't written anything down. No accounts list. No wishes. No note to the people they love. When something happens, their family spends months searching shoeboxes and old emails. DearFile is the private file your family needs to find. People, account details, wishes, a note. No passwords, no credentials. Just the map: enough to know where to look and who to call. Simple enough to finish in an afternoon. Private by default. I built this after losing my dad. I hope you never need it.
I hope you live a long life and your family never has to go looking for anything. I hope your accounts are never a mystery, your wishes never a guess, your last words to the people you love never unspoken.
But if something happens tomorrow, I want your family to find everything in one place. Not in a shoebox. Not on a post-it. Not in three months of searching while their hearts are breaking.
My dad was the best kind of person. The one you call when everything falls apart. He just never got around to writing it down. None of us do, until it's too late.
I built DearFile so the people you love don't spend those three months searching. One private place for everything they need to find.
I hope you never need it. But please, set it up anyway.
This is the product our family needed when we lost uncle.
My uncle passed unexpectedly and all of us spent weeks just trying to figure out who his insurance was with. Nobody knew. We found a policy number on a piece of paper in a drawer six months later.
Something like DearFile would have changed those first weeks completely. Not just practically. Emotionally. Every hour we spent searching was an hour we weren't just grieving.
Glad this exists. Setting it up tonight.
About DearFile on Product Hunt
“ I hope you never need it.”
DearFile was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 10 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #32 on the daily leaderboard. Most people haven't written anything down. No accounts list. No wishes. No note to the people they love. When something happens, their family spends months searching shoeboxes and old emails. DearFile is the private file your family needs to find. People, account details, wishes, a note. No passwords, no credentials. Just the map: enough to know where to look and who to call. Simple enough to finish in an afternoon. Private by default. I built this after losing my dad. I hope you never need it.
DearFile was featured in Parenting (4.3k followers), Notes (8.3k followers) and Family (864 followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 6.9k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted DearFile?
DearFile was hunted by Ben. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Ben
Hey Product Hunters.
I hope you never need what I built.
I hope you live a long life and your family never has to go looking for anything. I hope your accounts are never a mystery, your wishes never a guess, your last words to the people you love never unspoken.
But if something happens tomorrow, I want your family to find everything in one place. Not in a shoebox. Not on a post-it. Not in three months of searching while their hearts are breaking.
My dad was the best kind of person. The one you call when everything falls apart. He just never got around to writing it down. None of us do, until it's too late.
I built DearFile so the people you love don't spend those three months searching. One private place for everything they need to find.
I hope you never need it. But please, set it up anyway.