My mother was diagnosed with dementia 16 years ago.

Not the forgetting-where-you-put-your-keys kind. The kind that takes a person slowly, piece by piece, until the woman who raised you is still there but somehow unreachable.

I wanted to remember her. Not the version the disease was making her. The real her. The way she laughed. The way she looked at me. The moments we had together before everything changed.

Eight years ago I had an idea. What if you could upload all your data, your photos, your messages, your memories, and something would surface the moments you forgot you had? I called it co.net/ed back then. It never got built. The technology was not ready, or I was not ready, or both.

The idea sat with me for eight years.

I uploaded my Facebook data to Ori. Photos going back 15 years. And when I searched for my mother, photos came up that I had completely forgotten existed. Her smiling. Real moments. Moments I lived but somehow lost.

I cried. That is the moment I knew this was not just a side project.

That is why Ori exists.

But it is not just for people like me. It is for anyone who has been online for more than five years and wonders who they were back then. What they actually cared about. How they spent their time. The friends they lost touch with. The music that carried them through hard years.

Your data has been building a portrait of your life for 20 years. Nobody ever gave it back to you.

Ori does.

I built this alone in three weeks. I am not a developer by trade. I used AI to help me write most of the code. It is live right now. Free to start. Your data never leaves your account. Ever. No ads. No selling your information.

If you try it I would genuinely love to know what comes up for you.

And if you have been through something similar with a parent or someone you love, I see you. That is why this exists.

Most people do not know Spotify keeps a record of every song you have ever played. Not just your recent history. Everything. Going back years.

You can request this data directly from Spotify and what comes back is remarkable. Here is how to get it.

How to download your Spotify data

1. Go to spotify.com and sign in
2. Click your profile photo, then Account
3. Scroll down to Privacy Settings
4. Click Download your data
5. Select Extended streaming history, which goes back further than the standard version
6. Click Request data

Spotify will email you when it is ready. This can take up to 30 days so request it now.

What is inside

When the zip file arrives you will have a JSON file with every song, every artist, every play, the exact date and time, and how many milliseconds you listened before skipping.

What is in there is remarkable.

Most people never see any of this. It just sits there.

How Ori uses your Spotify data

Ori reads your Spotify data and surfaces the moments that mean something. Upload your zip file and your feed starts building immediately. You do not need to look through the raw JSON yourself. Ori does the reading. You get the story.

While you wait for your extended history, you can connect Spotify directly via OAuth and Ori starts reading your recent plays immediately. The extended history adds the depth.

Facebook has been recording your life since the day you signed up. Every post. Every photo. Every message. Every reaction. Every check-in. Every event you said you were going to and then did not attend.

You can download all of it. Here is how.

How to download your Facebook data

1. Go to facebook.com and click your profile photo
2. Go to Settings and Privacy, then Settings
3. Click Your Facebook Information
4. Click Download Your Information
5. Set the format to JSON, not HTML
6. Set the date range to All Time
7. Click Request a Download

Facebook will notify you when it is ready. Usually within a few hours to a few days depending on how much data you have.

What comes back

What comes back is years of your life in raw form.

Posts you completely forgot you made. Photos from trips that feel like another lifetime. Conversations with people you have lost touch with. The version of you that existed in 2012 or 2015 or 2019, captured in your own words.

It can be overwhelming. It can also be beautiful.

How Ori uses your Facebook data

Ori processes your Facebook zip file and turns it into a daily feed of insights. Not all of it at once. Just one moment at a time, surfaced when you are ready for it.

A post from 2015 you forgot you wrote. A photo from a birthday you barely remember. A conversation that shows exactly where your head was at during a particular year.

Your past self had a lot to say. Ori helps you hear it.

You have been living digitally for years. Possibly decades.

Your music history is on Spotify. Your photos are on Facebook and Instagram. Your conversations are on WhatsApp. Your travel history is on Uber. Your work history is on LinkedIn. Your watch history is on YouTube.

None of these platforms talk to each other. None of them show you the full picture. And none of them give the data back to you in a way that actually means something.

What each platform holds

Spotify keeps every song you have ever played, with exact dates and times going back years. Request your extended streaming history from your account settings.

Facebook has every post, photo and message since you joined. Download in JSON format from Settings, Your Facebook Information.

Instagram has your photos, stories and direct messages. Download from Settings, Your Activity, Download Your Information.

WhatsApp stores your entire message history. Export individual chats from within the app and send them to yourself.

Uber has a record of every trip and every Eats order. Request from privacy.uber.com.

LinkedIn has your full career history and connections. Download from Settings, Data Privacy.

What happens when you put it all together

When you combine these sources something remarkable happens. Patterns emerge that you could never see from inside any one platform.

The week you were going through something hard shows up in your music, your late night Uber trips and your 2am food orders all at once. The year you were thriving shows up the same way. The friends who mattered most show up across multiple platforms simultaneously.

You start to see yourself from the outside. Not through a single lens but through all of them at once.

How Ori brings it together

Ori connects all of it. Upload your data sources one by one and Ori builds a personal feed from your actual life. Real moments, real patterns, real memories.

It is not a second brain. It is not a productivity tool. It is your life, made readable.

Free to start at helloori.ai. Your data never leaves your account.