The conversations worth keeping happen on the porch.
My Family Porch began with a familiar regret: the stories we always meant to ask about, and the people who took them with them. We built it so those conversations actually happen — and so they last.
Where the good stories always came out.
Think about where you heard your family's best stories. Odds are it wasn't a formal sit-down. It was the porch at golden hour — somebody in a rocking chair, no rush, the conversation wandering until it landed somewhere you'd never heard before.
The porch is unhurried. It's where an offhand question turns into the story of how they met, the house they grew up in, the year that changed everything. We named ourselves after that feeling because it is exactly what we're trying to keep.
“Pull up a chair. Stay a while. Tell me about it.”
Don't let the stories disappear.
Phones are full of photos and short of voices. We can picture our grandparents, but the sound of them telling a story — the pause, the laugh, the way they said your name — fades first. My Family Porch exists to catch that part, gently, while there's still time, and to hand it back to your family in a form they'll actually keep.
A few things we won't compromise on.
Warm, never morbid
This is a celebration, not a goodbye. Every prompt and page is designed to feel like a grandchild asking — heartfelt, never saccharine, never clinical.
Private by default
Recordings are family-isolated and visible only to the people you invite. They are never sold, and never used to train anything outside your family's keepsake.
Yours to keep
The stories belong to your family, not to us. You can download every recording, transcript, and the book at any time — even if you cancel.
The people behind the porch.
My Family Porch is a service of Technology Leadership Group, LLC — a small team that believes the most important things a family owns are its stories. We're building the keepsake we wish we'd started for our own families sooner.
There's a chair waiting. Start the conversation.
It takes a few minutes to set up — and there's no better day to begin than today.