Hi! I’m Jonathan, the founder of ShareLocket.
I’ve spent my career building things to help make people’s lives better. When it came time for my next project, I listened to what the people around me were saying. They were short on time, overwhelmed with ads, fed up with social media slop, missing close connections with their friends and family, and, at best, unsure about AI. In general: a lot of frustration with technology.
My goal became creating a product that slowed down, savored interactions with loved ones over influencers, and would turn the screen into a place asking for only the attention you chose to give it. The result is ShareLocket, where you can create circles of friends or family to privately share the moments of your lives free from ads, data harvesting, promoted posts, and algorithms flooding your feed. Even better, it takes whatever you share and builds a smart, adaptable archive to organize your circle’s interests. Maybe you send a few photos of old family recipe cards — ShareLocket converts them to text, understands they are recipes, and starts a circle recipe collection. Or perhaps you and your cousins spend a weekend at the beach. All your shared photos and videos, regardless of who posted them, are collected into an album for browsing by the family members who couldn’t make it. Whatever your interests, from books, to genealogy research, to growing grandchildren, to a list of roller coasters ridden, ShareLocket does the organizing for you.
With this product, I wanted to make sure not to pass by those who might be older or less inclined to download and learn yet another app. ShareLocket meets people where they are already comfortable. Perhaps you prefer email over a webpage? Or text messaging? Even a phone call? ShareLocket accepts all of those gracefully. Go ahead and get Grandpa to tell the boat story again on the phone — his recording, complete with transcript, goes straight to the rest of the circle, kept safe and available anytime by simply asking ShareLocket for “grandpa’s boat story.”
ShareLocket continues to grow and improve every day. If you have a suggestion, please let me know! My goal is for it to become a respite for tired eyes and brains, where you can share and connect on a deeper level with those you care most about. In building something that my friends, family, and I wanted for ourselves, I hope I’ve made something the rest of you will love too.
- Jonathan