The Memolio Blog

Photos capture presence. But personality is what we actually miss. How to preserve a grandparent's voice — their stories, opinions and phrases — before the window closes.

How a twelve-panel comic about Tyrol's energy future became the start of Memolio — and why AI gets interesting the moment you ask it for a story, not an image.

Some Code nodes break silently — no error, no warning, just data quietly dropped days before anyone notices. How I name, document, and build a checklist around them.

My mother-in-law looked at her AI-generated book and said she looked frumpy. She was right — and it exposed a blind spot about age, identity, and what AI assumes about older people.

$242B in AI funding and 40% of enterprise apps adding agents by year-end. What agentic AI actually looks like for an indie builder — and why the most valuable AI is the most interruptible.

Four hours watching an AI agent solve the same problem five wrong ways — and the one sentence that flipped the session. What building with AI agents is actually about: knowing when to interrupt.

How a name change forced me to remember why family stories matter. The bet behind Memolio: that a grandparent's stories deserve better than a post that disappears in a week.

AI editors change the whole picture when you only wanted to fix one thing. The trick that fixed it for us: stop describing the problem, start pointing at it — with real before/after examples.

Why I still use Seedream 4.5 when Seedream 5 is out, and why taste beats chasing every new AI model release.

Everyone sells the speed of building with AI. Nobody costs out what it takes back: scope creep, decision fatigue, and the discipline that fixes it.

Months stuck in ChatGPT loops, a detour through Gemini, and the moment building with AI stopped feeling like a toy.

Why I built my business to need me as little as possible, and the one place I refuse to let AI make the call.

Ten hard-won lessons from building a whole business solo with AI, from ignoring the latest model to keeping a human in the loop.

AI removed the team you used to need to build a company. A case for the small, owned, sustainable business over growth at all costs.

EU AI Act Article 50 becomes enforceable on August 2, 2026. If you generate AI images for EU customers, you have a legal obligation most small businesses haven't dealt with yet. Here's the plain-English version — what it requires, what you can skip, and the prompts to ask Claude to find out where you stand.

My entire fixed software bill is €310 a month. Here's the exact stack, what it replaced, and why that changes who gets to start a business.

We had the outline of who she was. Not the texture. On the quiet gap between knowing someone as a grandparent and knowing them as a person — and why it matters more than we realise.

One of our first testers talks through her notes on the personalised book we made about her husband Andy's life — in her own words.

Over 90% of family stories vanish within three generations — about one lifetime. Here's what gets lost, why we don't act in time, and how to preserve a grandparent's story before the window closes.

There's a question buried in every family that almost nobody asks. Here are 20 questions to ask your grandparents that actually unlock something — about childhood, work, love, and what they want remembered.

The week I stopped shipping features and thought about growth instead. Three lessons on funnel friction, the unsexy content that actually compounds, and owning your waitlist.

There's a particular kind of grief that comes with realising you never asked. On the gap between knowing someone as your grandparent and knowing them as a person — and how to close it.

Somewhere in your mid-thirties you realise your mother had a whole life before you. The best gift for mum isn't another object — it's her own story, preserved for the grandchildren who'll outlast us all.

Memolio uses AI to create personalised books for grandparents from real photos. Here's the honest reason why — and why it matters.

How a (kind of gross) mistake led to me building a whole new product-changing feature — and what it taught me about building with AI.