Before You Depart:
Preparing For The Unexpected

    We are putting the finishing touches on YouDeparted, are now transitioning to marketing mode. We anticipate a day when millions of individuals around the world are using our service to record everything their loved ones will need to know if something happens, but until we let the world know about us, we are just a great idea. People do not even know to search for a service like YouDeparted.com so our next step is to get the word out! 

    YouDeparted.com is based on a universal human desire: we want our family and friends to be OK if something happens to us. For thousands of years, our ancestors have used Wills to take care of the big things like allocating land and resources but there are so many other things such as our final wishes, last messages and instructions that we want our loved ones to have. In this technological age where much of our lives are spent on the computer, so much is lost and forgotten when we pass away: our email accounts, our photo albums, our online banking accounts, our contacts. YouDeparted.com is the next logical step in passing on the important and the personal. 

    At this time, not very many people are actively searching for an online service that helps you take care of your loved ones by leaving them information and instructions. We have essentially built a product that precedes direct demand. However, given our aging population, and the tens of millions of baby-boomers reaching retirement age, there is a definite and massive indirect demand for our service.

    Over the next several months we are going to actively work on telling the world about YouDeparted.com. Thinking about and preparing for the end of our lives is certainly not ever going to be a “fun” thing to do, but with our service it is a lot easier.  We know people want to take care of their families if something happens, and soon we expect YouDeparted will help a lot of people do just that!

Greetings!

We now offer the ability to upload 100MB of files to your account.  You can insert pictures into your entries, attach videos, pdfs, documents, audio files and more.

We spent the morning looking at the various file types one can upload to a server. We have most of the common ones now, jpg, gif, avi, xls, doc, etc. I was asked how come you have to check each file type uploaded? For example, many sites lets you upload any type of file.

We have to add what is called a mime type for each file so we know which application it uses to load. Though many sites let you upload files, our site lets you view them, send them as email attachments and become part of the pdf. So, we check for what the file extension is when you upload and match it up to the correct mime type. The application we match to the file lets you download the file and view it properly.