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I built an iOS app that interviews you and creates an avatar that can talk to your family after you’re gone

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I asked mine my grandfather’s name and it said it didn’t know. I never told it, so it didn’t guess. That was the moment I knew it was working. EchoVault interviews you about your life across short sessions, then builds an avatar of you that the people you name can talk to after you die, in text, vo…

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  1. 2026-08-20 13:44 · r/PromptEngineering
    I built an iOS app that interviews you and creates an avatar that can talk to your family after you’re gone

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