Time Machine Print
Print-on-demand for moments worth holding onto.
Time Machine Print is a deliberate counter-move to the infinite scroll. Upload a year of photos, voice notes, and screenshots; we lay it out, print it on archival stock, bind it, and ship it. One book a year, made to outlast the cloud account it came from.
Memories are stored, not held
We take more photos than any generation in history and look at almost none of them. They live behind a login, ranked by an algorithm, durable only as long as a subscription is. Physical artifacts — the photo album, the printed letter — are doing better than the cloud at the one job storage is for: still being there in twenty years.
Slow media, by design
Time Machine Print isn't trying to be the fastest or the cheapest photo book. It's trying to be the one you actually keep on a shelf. Every constraint — once a year, archival materials, opinionated layout — is a feature.
One book a year
An annual cadence forces curation. Quality of the archive goes up; decision fatigue goes down.
Layout you don't fight
An AI-assisted composer proposes a full draft from your year. You approve or nudge — you don't drag rectangles for six hours.
Made to last
Acid-free paper, smyth-sewn binding, linen cover. Built to be a hundred-year object, not a seasonal gift.
What the product does
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Upload anything
Photos, screenshots, voice memos, short clips (printed as QR with transcript). One inbox per year.
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Auto-curated draft
A first pass groups your year by month, theme, and people, then proposes a full layout in minutes.
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Soft-touch editing
Swap a spread, mute a month, write a caption. No infinite tool palette — five verbs, total.
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Archival production
120gsm uncoated text stock, smyth-sewn binding, linen-wrapped board cover, foil stamped spine.
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Annual reorder
One click on a previous year reissues a fresh copy — for a parent, a future you, a gift.
“Photos I haven't seen in a year, in a book I'll still own in twenty.”
— Pilot interview, parent of two
Where we are
In sketch phase. Print partners selected, layout engine prototyped, pricing model tested with a small intent survey. No public landing yet.
- Print partner shortlistComplete
- Layout engine prototypeComplete
- Pricing & intent surveyIn progress
- Pilot run (50 books)Planned
- Public landingPlanned
- Open orderingPlanned
What's next
A 50-book pilot run with friends-of-the-studio, then a quiet public landing with waitlist and a single annual ordering window.