Ideas

Great idea.

I do think people would like to setup preference on what they find important events/info + have a way to audit the end-result before approving the buy. If it's automatically generated, this shouldn't be a big problem.

I would expand the idea to important events in one's life :

Eg. :
- when I first met my girlfriend
- when I got married
- when someone died
- when I lost virginity
- ..

Also make sure you can trace back up to 100 years, so it can still be generated, independent of one's age.

too damn cool 4skool.. actually pitched something like this to a bunch of gals at a babyshower for friend who was having a baby 2yrs ago. But the look of horror on their faces was enough to stuff that idea for me then.
I tend to 4get when hanging outside of those who happily inhabit mixed reality that tech scares & makes a lot of beings paranoid. Thank heavens for social media making it fun & accessible for the 'fraidy cats.
Good job M8.. rock it hard.. it'll be one I'll punt for you fo'sho

Great idea :)

Stop it with these great ideas! Oh wait... Don't stop. Keep 'em coming!

love the idea has lots of potential in many different avenues

I was thinking about what people find are the most precious mementos surrounding births. Sure- a snapshot of what was happening in the world is important to many, but more important are baby photos, letters/emails and videos sent and taken at the time. You have already suggested that the site would allow for photo upload- it should also support (brief) video content too.

Ideas for names for this service:

Hatchlingz

Birthday Snapshot

The Moment I Hatched

Thanks for the positive feedback everyone. I really like people's suggestions, especially around extending the idea to different times (imhotep) and allowing upload of other material (jdcb42).

PsychSplash

how horrible that the project on the left (caregiver tessie) is the one that most needs psychsplash - and the one on the right is BY psychsplash.

have only read the one on the left but will be back....

This is a great idea that I could see people spending a lot of money on something like this.

As I've pointed out elsewhere (in the Forums), I know for a fact that people currently pay for this sort of thing ON PAPER for their kids (I have done so myself!) so I know there's a viable business behind this.

Beautiful idea! Somehow, both the parents and the baby (later) will have increased awareness of what significant event was going on during the day of birth.

To keep the parents busy on the site: why not expand a little also the concept to something like this:

Age Photo Tracking: Every year (birthday) recent photos will uploaded for the "world" to see how the baby transformed over the years.

I love it. Besides being a great idea, its a nice package gift that is simple to implement and fun for all.

Great idea... and if you extend the idea as per Imhotep's suggestion of life's events then i would like to suggest combining my "Life's Storyboard" http://www.cambrianh...ter/ideas-id/tTMy41u with your idea as there would be some good overlap and ways to expand the concept... if you like;)

Great Idea.
Like Imhotep's thoughts on incorporating world view of parents.
Could also expand into a creative vision of how I would like the world to be for this child. A repository of positive dreams.

PsychSplash, whether this wins or not, I'd be interested in helping build it.

thanks cyber - would love to work on it with you!!

This is a really nice idea.

I keep thinking of those "24 hours" books where people take pictures within the same 24 hours. I could see if this was done really elegantly focusing on things in history perhaps as well as things that happened that very day, it could be a great gift for the child.

I like this b/c it is a clutter free way of electronically creating a memento, akin to saving the newspaper without actually having to find space for a newspaper.

If integrated with scrapbooking software it could become the start of an online baby book with an option to print out a hard copy of some or all, and to upload life events over the years.

Something else I like about this is that if you don't get around to creating the baby book when your kids are actually still babies, you can still do it later ;-)

How ... redemptive.

Really like this one, it is simple to impliment and scalable, you have a diverse market to spread into, and it should have a viral element too, as I am sure people will send them to all their relatives.

Really neat.

You've got to be quick; I imagine Google has a "Google History" in the works already... Just like Google Earth!

You'd mentioned the similar services that are available on paper (which I've also heard of & seen), but I also saw the description of an online service that sounded a lot like yours:
"TimeCaptured.com...a unique baby gift that captures time - 'TimePieces.' Have you ever wondered what the price of a loaf of bread was back when you were born or what major events happened? This is a way to capture these details and more. We offer a personalized baby CD that contains headline news, national weather, business news, politics, music charts, movie reviews, and much more."
Granted, it looks at this from two perspectives---a) back to one's birthdate once one is older; and b) the worldview for the newly born--- but encompasses the similar concept for both.
Perhaps that's a way to expand your product line later on down the road....???
Either way, it turns out you're in luck: the domain name and URL is up for sale should you wanna incorporate any parts of it into your own idea.

I like it also

I'm voting up

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You might also offer options for different languages and areas.

its cute...

its just ironic this had to face off to John Herbert's Caregiver Tessie...

In a bird's view this one "WHen you were born..." is but a usual parent's creative way of documenting their Child's birth in an album. Yet, in just a wink of PychSplash mandarin mind comes a potential time traveling YOUTUBE of cascading events happened in a child's moment of birth. WHoa! in a flash a single parent's effort is for everyone to enjoy...

Thumbs up!