This platform provides dedicated, private timelines for documenting and sharing ongoing life developments with selected groups like family and friends. It features granular visibility controls and deliberately omits algorithmic feeds, instant messaging, and excessive notifications to encourage intentional sharing. Users can share updates via the platform or through email subscriptions, ensuring content remains private and focused on close connections.
Funding
Funding not disclosed
Founders
Product
Problem
People who want to keep close friends and family updated on ongoing life projects lack a private, low‑distraction platform; mainstream social networks rely on algorithmic feeds, public sharing, and frequent notifications that compromise privacy and consume attention.
Solution
Ongoing Things provides dedicated timelines—called “things”—that let users document and share updates with selected audiences (Family, Friends, Almost‑strangers). Each timeline has granular visibility controls, and updates are delivered via email digests or shareable view‑only portals, eliminating the need for recipients to create accounts. The interface is intentionally minimal, offering at most one daily notification and no instant messaging, likes, or algorithmic ranking. All data is stored securely in the EU, encrypted at rest and in transit, and is not used for advertising, AI training, or sold to third parties. Users can choose a free tier with limited capacity or a paid subscription that unlocks unlimited timelines, unlimited notifications, and a larger media quota. The platform enables anyone to subscribe others by email and allows recipients to request notifications without signing up, supporting intentional, private sharing.
Target Audience
The service targets families, close‑friend circles, and small hobby or project groups that need a private, low‑noise channel for sharing ongoing life updates.
Features
- Three hierarchical visibility levels (Family, Friends, Almost‑strangers) with inheritance rules that prevent cross‑group data leakage.
- Email‑based subscription system delivering updates as digest emails; optional view‑only portal links let non‑registered users access content.
- Daily notification scheduler with “Rarely”, “Occasionally”, and “Regularly” settings, capped at one push per day to reduce distraction.
- Minimalist responsive web UI built on HTML/CSS, optimized for posting or reading within minutes.
- EU‑hosted storage with end‑to‑end encryption and role‑based access controls; data excluded from advertising, AI training, and third‑party sales.
- Media handling with 20 GB quota on the paid plan and 0.25 GB on the free plan, including automatic compression and secure CDN delivery.
- Tiered subscription model: free tier (limited timelines, notifications, 0.25 GB media) and paid tier at €4.9 / month offering unlimited timelines, unlimited notifications, 20 GB media, and priority email support.