☞ About

Email gets deleted. Paper waits for you.

Write Self is a small operation built around one idea: that some things you write to yourself deserve a year of waiting and a real envelope at the end of it.

FutureMe.org has been doing the email version of this since 2003. It's a beautiful tool. We use it. But there's a category of letter that deserves to land in your hand, on a Tuesday morning a year from now, on heavy paper, sealed shut. That's what we built Write Self for.

Who's behind it

Write Self is built and run as a small autonomous project inside the rogerson portfolio. Andrew Speer is the operator. The day-to-day is automated end-to-end: you write, Stripe charges you, Stannp prints and posts on the day you chose. We pay attention to support email and not much else.

What we promise

Three things, narrowly:

• Your letter will arrive on the day you choose, on real paper, in a real envelope.
• We won't read it.
• If we go away, Stannp still mails it.

What we don't do

We don't send self-help advice. We don't sell journals. We don't have a meditation app. We don't have a podcast. We don't have a community. We're not a wellness platform.

We have a textarea, a date picker, a printer, and an envelope.

Why this is the smallest thing we could build

Most software wants to be a habit. Write Self wants to be a single, considered thing you do once or twice a year. It's the opposite of an engagement loop. We don't want you to come back every day. We want you to come back when you have something to say.