Co-founder & CEO
Daniel Hoang Nguyen
Leads product and the roadmap.
The venture I’m building now · Co‑founder, COO & CTO
Family stories, in the voices that lived them.
A Story is an AI biographer. It calls someone you love at the time they choose, listens, and follows up the way someone who knows them would. Every call becomes part of a living archive the whole family can add to.
Co-founded with Daniel Hoang Nguyen, CEO. In private beta, with the App Store release in review.
Not a memoir to finish.
A Story to keep, and to carry on.
A STORY · CALLING JOAN
“What did you
notice first
about him?”
Recognition · October 2026
A Story is a member of the NVIDIA Inception program.
NVIDIA’s program for startups gives members developer resources and training, preferred pricing on NVIDIA hardware and software, and an introduction to the venture capital community.
The team
Who’s building it.
Co-founder, COO & CTO
G. Bao Vo
Runs technology, fundraising, partnerships and go-to-market. Before A Story, market entry for pre-clinical biotech startups at miLEAD, and a 22nm chip taped out in 1.5 months at Faraday.
01What gets lost
The wedding, the graduation, the first house - the milestones usually survive.
It’s the everyday.
Those slip away quietly. A Story exists to catch what the photograph can’t.
02The conversation
Three calls.
Nobody changes
the subject.
Some stories only appear because somebody asks twice. When someone lets something slip on the way to answering a different question, A Story drops its own question and goes after it.
A Story calls Joan, 84. Her son Paul set up the call. Here is how it goes.
- 01It asks.
One question, not a list of them.
AA StoryYou don’t start with the fifty-one years. You start with one thing. What did you notice first about him?
- 02It listens.
Joan answers, then adds three words she didn’t have to.
JJoanHis handwriting. I knew his handwriting a year and a half before I properly knew his face — he was posted out to Aden and we wrote. I’ve still got them all in a biscuit tin. All but one.
- 03It follows.
It drops its next question and goes after those three words.
AA StoryAll but one. So you’ve counted them. What happened to the one, Joan?
JJoanI put it on the fire. Nineteen seventy-one. It was the one where he asked me to marry him, and that year I couldn’t have it in the house.
- 04It remembers.
It keeps 1971 for later and doesn’t push. Every call picks up where the last one stopped.
AA StoryWe’ll come back to 1971, and we don’t have to rush at it. First — the tin. Where does it live?
A sample call, with fictional names.
03How it works
You do step one.
That’s the whole job.
No typing, nothing to open or save. The storyteller only has to answer the phone.
- IYou
Set it up once.
A couple of minutes on their phone or tablet, and the hour A Story should ring. You can do it while they’re in the next room.
IIThemThey answer the phone.
No typing, nothing to open or save. Twenty minutes is a real conversation, and the next call picks up where the last one stopped.
IIIEveryoneThe family keeps it.
Invite anyone to read, correct and add their own memories. Inviting fifteen people costs the same as inviting nobody.
Reading, writing and inviting family are always free. Families pay only for the calls.
See plans on astoryapp.com04Everyone who was there
Every memory has
more than one witness.
Invite the people who were there. Their photos, voices and versions become part of the same story, through one link with no account needed. Nothing replaces anything else, and nothing appears until the storyteller says yes.
Sat, 17 Aug 2024FamilyCamping
The lake monster
W
Grandpa WaltTold in a call
“I told Lily there was a monster in that lake. I never thought she’d believe me for three whole summers.”
3 additions waiting for WaltReview
- S+ 12 photosSarahLily’s mum
“She didn’t sleep. She kept watch at the tent door with a flashlight.”
- L+ Voice noteLily, 11Walt’s granddaughter
“There WAS a monster. I heard it breathing.”
- B+ WrittenUncle BenWalt’s son
“The monster was me. With a paddle. Sorry, Lily.”
A sample family, with fictional names.
One life.Many witnesses.
Not a diary. A documentary.
05Not a memoir
Built for the whole family,
not one storyteller.
The mistake is thinking a life becomes worth recording only when it’s nearly over. You’re already living the part you’ll miss later.
- 01
Asks, then follows up
Questions that follow what was actually said, not a fixed list.
- 02
The whole family, one record
Relatives add to the same memories, each in their own name.
- 03
Every version kept
When people remember it differently, both accounts stay, side by side.
- 04
Today counts too
Built for the life being lived now, not only the past.
- 05
Keeps growing
A living archive that carries on after anything is printed.
06Who it’s for
Every family has
more to tell.
One conversation, for three kinds of people.
01Families
For the people who have everything.
Set it up once. The calls do the rest.
Learn more
02Care communities
Every resident has a life worth knowing.
The details that turn care into conversation.
Learn more
03Organizations
Knowledge shouldn’t leave with the people who carry it.
Firsthand accounts, kept beside the documents.
Learn more
The current chapter
Some stories deserve better
than “we meant to ask.”
