I've been keeping a journal since middle school. Last year I scanned them all, uploaded them to an LLM, and posted the results here. Then I tried to buy other people's. Turns out the only things you can buy are fake excerpts from Etsy. So I made this — a real marketplace where you can buy strangers' years or sell your own.
real people. real years. browse below — sample listings are marked.
set your price. choose how many copies. stay anonymous or don't. we take 15% and you keep the rest. we'll review within 48 hours before it goes live — no AI-generated stuff, we check.
best way: scan as PDF or individual photos. my friend grant is supposedly building a video-flip OCR thing but he has one more week before i do it myself. in the meantime — scan, photo, PDF, whatever you've got.
we'll OCR everything and give you a chance to review before the listing goes live.
i'd price more recent ones higher. weird periods of your life are probably worth more than the normal ones. that's my theory anyway — you know better than me.
looks good? we'll review it within 48 hours before it goes live. you'll get an email when it's approved (or if we have questions).
one thing: it has to be real. no AI-generated journals. we check. don't try it.
I am an avid journal keeper. I have been since middle school. Therefore everything that has happened to me or I have thought has been written down somewhere for me to infrequently glance back through. Last year I scanned them all and uploaded them to an LLM, and then posted the results here; for all to see and for people to one shot me in the future.
Turns out the only things you can buy right now are like fake excerpts from etsy and no other great options. Therefore this prompted me to want to make my own diary selling and buying marketplace.
for sellers: set your price. publish under your name or a pen name. choose one copy or many. we take 15%.
for buyers: scroll through real people's real years. read an excerpt. buy the one that speaks to you.
the one rule: it has to be real. no AI-generated journals. we check.
we'll look it over within 48 hours and get back to you. thanks for putting your inner life on the market — it takes something.