A shared journal
Intimate and ongoing. Everyone writes in it — a memory added as easily as sending a text.
A first look · for the family
HobbsHubThe stories we’re making now, kept before they’re lost.
A shared journal, a family wiki, and a living history — private, built to last for generations, and easy enough that Grandpa actually uses it.
What it is, in plain terms
A family wiki
Look up any person, story, or event. Our people and history, linked together and easy to find.
A living history
Not just the ancestors who came before — the living, and the memories we’re making this year.
A peek at what’s coming
These are live — poke around, they’re not screenshots.
Add a memory
It feels like sending a text.
One friendly box. A line of text, a photo, or a voice note — any one is enough. The app does the boring work: dates and places pulled from your photos automatically.
DadShalaneJosh
Summer ’04 · approx.
Add a memory like sending a text.
Saved — everyone in the family can see it now.
Your home
Everything waiting on you, in one place.
Not a feed to scroll forever — a short, clearable list. A question your dad asked, a photo you’re tagged in. It comes to you; you never have to remember to check.
Waiting on you
3- Dad asked you: “What was your first car?”
- You’re tagged in “The camper & the mailbox.”
- Add who was there to your beach-day memory.
All caught up. Nothing left waiting.
Recent in the family
Shalane added “Grandpa’s cabin” · 3 photos · Summer 1994
Kymberlee answered “Mom’s best recipe?”
Person pages
Every person gets a living page.
Nobody maintains a wiki. Person pages build themselves from the memories everyone adds — the stories they told, the stories about them, and every photo they’re in.
Darrin Bruce Hobbs
Claimed pageMarried Elizabeth on July 1, 1989. Together they raised six kids — and the family just keeps growing.
“The summer we drove to the coast” · in his own voice
“How I met your mother” · told 2025
Josh: “Dad never lost a game of H-O-R-S-E.”
Katelyn: “The best pancake flipper alive.”
Timeline
It tells the truth about time.
“Summer ’94” is a real answer. Exact days sit as points, fuzzy dates as bands, and anything undated gets its own place — so nothing is ever lost for want of a date.
- Jul 1, 1989
Darrin & Elizabeth married
- Summer ’94 · approx.
Grandpa’s cabin
- Jul 1, 2014
Naomi — the first grandchild
- 2024 – 2026 · band
Deacon, Mary Lee & Bostyn arrive
- ?Date unknown
“The camper & the mailbox” — nothing lost
Fuzzy dates render honestly — a point, a band, or a “not sure” bucket.
Story collection
Grandma’s stories, in her own voice.
Sit with her, hit record, talk. We keep both the recording and the transcript — transcribed right on the device. The recording itself is the heirloom.
Sit with Grandma. Hit record. Just talk.
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audio + transcript, both kept
The recording itself is the heirloom.
The family graph
See how everyone connects.
The whole family as a living web — people, marriages, trips, and the memories between them. Drag it around, let it settle, tap anyone to open their page. It’s the fun way in.
Open the family graphEvery photo, kept
A shoebox of photos that never gets lost.
Scattered across phones, group chats, and old hard drives — the family’s photos finally get one warm home. Tagged with who’s in them, tied to the memories they belong to, and safe for generations. You can always export everything.
Why it’s different
Built to be kept, not to be scrolled.
Private
Just our family, behind a login. Not Facebook, not public, not for strangers.
Easy
Add a memory like a text. Answer a question your kid asked by replying to an email.
Forever
Built to last generations — and you can export the whole archive whenever you want.
It comes to you
A question, or a photo you’re tagged in, finds you. No app you have to remember to open.
This isn’t a new group chat.
Keep the Family Link — that’s where the day-to-day lives, and it’s not going anywhere.HobbsHub is the other thing: the place the stories, the photos, and the historysettle — so what matters doesn’t scroll away and disappear.
You’re the first family in
Ours to fill, together.
We’re the very first family to test this. Invites go out from Josh — you’ll get a single magic link, no password to remember. Watch for it, and come add the first memory.
Happy birthday, Dad — this one’s for all of us.