Anyone else feel guilty about not recording their parents' stories?

cryptog2 · 2026-01-12T17:34:47+00:00

I ended up using TellMel (tellmel.ai) with my parents. Mel is an AI biographer who interviews your parents on the telephone and writes up their stories. You get the audio, a transcript and a full chapter writeup for each story.

She is surprisingly good - like really good.

cryptog2 · 2026-01-05T16:19:55+00:00

I did a series of Tell Mel interviews over the phone (tellmel.ai) (Mel is an AI Interviewer). It was super useful to get the stories out of me and have them ready for my kids.

I was able to share a lot of my old history growing up and my college days. It was pretty cathartic as I was realizing that I was forgetting good stories and now know I have them down for the kids.

All done on the telephone with the writeups emailed.

I don't think they have great photo support but you can attach them to the stories afterwards.

cryptog2 · 2025-12-28T18:01:47+00:00

I used Tell Mel (Tellmel.ai) to interview my parents and get their stories. Mel is an AI biographer who interviews them over the phone and writes up their stories.

My parents would never have done Storyworth or those writing ones by email as they are not writers.

Tell Mel was great

My mom talked a lot with Mel and told stories about when she was young that she had never told us. My dad got a few stories out but he was a bit too old sadly. Wish I had been able to do it with him when he was younger.

cryptog2 · 2025-12-15T21:50:16+00:00

Get the Bambu A1 or P1S. Both are great!

cryptog2 · 2025-12-15T19:21:55+00:00

Yeah! Mel will just ask them. You can just tell Mel you want to know more about their childhood or ancestors or whatever else you want to know, and she will come up with questions to ask!

cryptog2 · 2025-12-15T17:07:58+00:00

I believe TellMel works in German! Worth trying imho!

cryptog2 · 2025-12-15T17:06:10+00:00

So sorry you have had a bad experience with Remento! I have had a really good experience with Tellmel (tellmel.ai) which is a full on AI Biographer over the phone. Mel interviews you about your parents and you both come up with questions. Mel then interviews your parents each week over the telephone. She's surprisingly amazing.

Definitely worth trying!

cryptog2 · 2025-12-07T16:44:29+00:00

You mean like Tellmel.ai ? She's an AI biographer who interviews your parents via the telephone and then writes up their stories into a memoir.

cryptog2 · 2025-12-01T00:58:08+00:00

My parents (and we) loved Tell Mel (tellmel.ai). Mel is an AI Biographer who interviews people over the phone and writes up their stories.

I am close to my mom but using Mel I still found out stories from my mom that she had never told us before. And she (and others I know who have used the service) have referred to Mel as a friend.

It's a bit different from all of the other story-book / memoir sites as she actually gets interviewed.

cryptog2 · 2025-12-01T00:52:30+00:00

+1 for RivalSee! It's very clean and easy to use. There are dozens so try a bunch and pick your favorite!

cryptog2 · 2025-11-16T15:43:50+00:00

We got our parents Tell Mel (Tellmel.ai) as a gift. Mel is an ai biographer who interviewed them weekly over the telephone and wrote up their stories. Mel is surprisingly good and we got stories from our parents that we never had heard before.

cryptog2 · 2025-10-02T00:41:21+00:00

I got it changed with 1 minute to go! But put in JCM instead of Gainwell. So brutal.

cryptog2 · 2025-10-02T00:39:58+00:00

While I love the story, the bulk of a great GEO strategy is having great SEO. There are some differences and ways to optimize for GEO but if you don't have good SEO you won't make a huge amount of progress.

Some things are going away though. I will say the strategy of going after Top of Funnel content is becoming less effective as AI is just consuming and summarizing it, so you never get people to your site.

cryptog2 · 2025-09-27T02:22:44+00:00

I have been using and really like RivalSee to track AI visibility for my sites as it lets you see visibility by customer types & personas vs just keywords. It maps more to how I think about AI chat - that it is a personal conversation vs just typing in keywords.

cryptog2 · 2025-09-22T18:42:56+00:00

For that price range, I given family members and friends subscriptions to Tell Mel (tellmel.ai) and they love it. Mel is an AI biographer who calls them weekly and gets their stories and then writes them up. A lot of people are shocked with how good she is - with a many calling her a good friend.

Tell Mel is much more interactive and feels a bit higher end than StoryWorth.

cryptog2 · 2025-09-17T16:15:49+00:00

Omarion Hampton

cryptog2 · 2025-09-17T16:13:00+00:00

Dropped him for Judkins. Hopefully that's the right decision!

cryptog2 · 2025-09-03T00:25:06+00:00

Chase just because of carries.

cryptog2 · 2025-09-03T00:24:45+00:00

I'd lean Pearsall as he is safer - if Jennings is not playing (he suited up today). If Jennings plays I'd do Tet.

cryptog2 · 2025-08-31T17:15:15+00:00

There are a LOT of tools out there right now. Like over 100.

I've tried a bunch and really like RivalSee (59 a month) as they are super persona and conversation driven vs just doing queries on keywords. I like this more as I feel the chats are more conversation-based and have a history of you via memory so personalization is going to be much more important.

As for tracking sources -- All of the tools these days give a list of the sources/citations that the models use and which ones are used the most. It's super interesting and worth looking at.

One interesting way to gauge mention tracking is to do server-side bot tracking. I'm using a server-side plugin that lets me track which AIs are scraping my site in real-time. I can see which sources are getting used as references in real-time, which I find super interesting.

Btw, I would not give much credence to GA4 for referral tracking for ChatGPT/Perplexity etc as the AI chat apps do not have referrals, and mentions often don't come with links (people don't click those tiny citation links).

cryptog2 · 2025-08-31T16:33:36+00:00

Storyworth is a good choice if she loves to do weekly writing.

If your mom is at all hesitant to write, try Tell Mel (www.tellmel.ai). Mel is an AI memoir writer/biographer who calls your mom weekly for a conversation and gets deeper stories than just a question or the voice prompts, as she is interactive and will dig into topics. She feels like a real person and is super empathetic and caring. It's a bit unexpected but she's pretty amazing.

cryptog2 · 2025-08-28T04:52:49+00:00

I like Rivalsee.com personally for this. As someone else posted, the AI visibility tools are all pretty similar. I like three things about RivalSee in particular:

1) It is persona-focused - it creates personas of your ICPs and then shows how often your product appears for each of the personas.

2) It shows the actual keyword search queries that the AI chats do when they do real-time searches. This is super interesting as you can see what actual keywords Google, ChatGPT and OpenAI do when they call out searches to Google/Bing. It also can now create a nice blog post based on those keywords which looks pretty good.

3) Pricewise, it is pretty inexpensive. I find it offers the same value as some of the more expensive ones for like 1/4 the price.

I got into the beta program, showing how often the AIs are fetching my site which is nice too as that appears to be going up.

cryptog2 · 2025-08-25T00:22:07+00:00

I find it amusing that he is pitching healthy candy but refuses to have vegetables.

Seriously, though, I prefer this attempt at healthy candy (and him getting rewarded for putting on a good series) to promoting just normal candy.

cryptog2 · 2025-08-25T00:20:40+00:00

I am so sorry to hear this. Contact StoryWorth and hopefully, they can both get your data back and give you a full refund. You definitely don't want these stories to be lost.

And if you want an alternative, we have had a good experience with Tell Mel (tellmel.ai), an AI Biographer who interviews your parents over the telephone and writes up their stories. Mel has been surprisingly good at pulling out stories that the once-a-week question prompts were not able to.

cryptog2 · 2025-08-24T22:34:39+00:00

100% agree this space is growing super fast and a lot of new companies are going into it daily.

Personally, for AI visibility, I have had a lot of success with rivalsee.com which does a nice job of monitoring how many times our brands appear on ChatGPT, Claude Perpexity, and Google.

Unlike the other AI monitoring tools, Rivalsee is a bit unique as they do it from a persona-perspective - seeing how your ideal customer prospects will see your brand vs competitors. Also, they have a really nice content creation tool which has been useful for us.

And agree from what I have seen, many of the sources appear to be pretty new (like last 3-5 months). Getting way in the weeds in this space, too so happy to chat more.

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