Daily story prompts
One good question each morning, written to unlock a memory rather than test it.
Family storytelling
Stories worth remembering, across generations.
Opadiopi gives grandparents, parents and kids playful prompts and simple tools to tell, record and keep the family stories that would otherwise be lost.
- One question a day
- Built for big hands and small ones
- Private to your family
Prompt 214
Told by Opa Hendrik
What you get
Four small things that add up to a family archive
Easy voice recording
Big buttons, no menus. Press once, talk, done. Built for hands that have earned a rest.
Shared family timeline
Every answer lands in one place, so cousins three time zones away hear it too.
Printed story books
Turn a year of answers into a real book, with the photos and the handwriting.
Try it now
Story prompt of the day
This is a working demo of the daily prompt card. Shuffle for a different question, try the mock recorder, and save a prompt to the sample family timeline. The recorder is illustrative only — no audio is captured or saved.
Prompt of the dayHomeInteractive demo
What did your street look like when you were ten?
Walk us from your front door to the corner. Who lived where?
Tap to record
Up to 30 seconds. Nothing is stored or uploaded.
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Family timeline
Sample dataSaved prompts appear here for everyone in the family group.
What did your street look like when you were ten?
Told by Opa Hendrik · 0:26
Which meal did your mother make that nobody can copy?
Told by Oma Ans · 0:19
How it works
Three steps, then it mostly runs itself
01
Start a family group
Invite the grandparents, the parents, the loud cousin. Everyone joins with a link, no accounts to remember.
02
Answer today's prompt
A question arrives each morning. Speak the answer, type it, or hand the phone to whoever tells it best.
03
Keep it, and print it
Answers gather on the family timeline. When you have enough, order a book that outlives the phone it was recorded on.
Everyone in the group
For grandparents, parents and kids
For grandparents
No apps to learn and nothing to lose. A question arrives, you talk for a minute, and the grandchildren hear it that evening.
- Large text and one-tap recording
- Answer by phone call if you prefer
- Skip any question you'd rather not
For parents
You're the one in the middle, and the one who will wish these were recorded. Opadiopi does the nudging so you don't have to.
- Gentle weekly reminders
- Add photos and captions
- Manage who sees what
For kids
Questions they can ask, and answers they can play back. Their own recordings sit in the same timeline as Opa's.
- Kid-friendly prompt packs
- Record a reply, not just a reaction
- Draw a page for the book
The product
The Family Book
A hardback, 120 pages, printed from your family's own answers. Transcribed stories on the left, photographs and captions on the right, and a QR code on each spread that plays the original recording in the teller's own voice.
£89 per book · extra copies £39
Illustrative product concept and indicative pricing
Chapter two · Home
The street with the blue door
“Our street had eleven houses and one telephone. Ours was the blue door, and if it rang for anybody else my mother would send me running down to fetch them, whatever the weather…”
Opa Hendrik · 1:42
The album Opa kept in the sideboard, photographed at the kitchen table.
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Plans
Simple pricing, whenever we launch
Indicative pricing for the concept. Nothing is on sale today — the buttons add you to the demo waitlist form.
Free
£0 forever
Try the daily prompt with one storyteller.
- One prompt a day
- Up to 10 saved recordings
- One family group of 5
- Web and mobile
Family
Most families£6 per month
The everyday plan for a family that keeps talking.
- Unlimited prompts and recordings
- Up to 25 people in a group
- Photo uploads and captions
- Export audio and transcripts
Legacy
£89 per book
Everything in Family, plus a book you can hold.
- Hardback family book, 120 pages
- Layout help from our editors
- Extra copies at £39
- Archive download of every recording
Illustrative only
Example scenarios
Opadiopi is a brand concept, so these are imagined uses rather than real families.
A birthday with a deadline
A family collects twelve answers from Oma over three months and gives her the printed book on her eightieth birthday.
Grandparents two flights away
Sunday video calls keep getting cancelled, so a daily prompt keeps the stories moving between Rotterdam and Jakarta.
A Year 5 history project
A class interviews grandparents about school in the 1960s and builds a shared timeline for the classroom wall.
About the name
Why “Opadiopi”?
Opadiopi is an invented, rhythmic name built around opa — grandfather in Dutch, and used in Indonesian too. It is the sort of word a two-year-old invents and the whole family then adopts for life.
We kept it silly on purpose. Recording your family history sounds like a serious project nobody starts; being asked what your street looked like when you were ten sounds like a chat. The name promises the second one.
Opa
grandfather (Dutch, also used in Indonesian)
Di
the skip in the middle
Opi
the echo a child adds
Opadiopi
oh·pah·dee·oh·pee
Say it out loud twice and you will hear why children remember it before adults do.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
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