Qbituary makes memorial websites for people you've lost. A real person interviews the family, gathers photographs and voice recordings, writes the page, and looks after it across the years. There's an optional box of physical things — a bronze plaque, letterpress cards, a pendant — each carrying a QR that opens the page.
That's it. One page per person. One price. Hosted for as long as we exist, and signed over to the Internet Archive if we don't.
We started because too many of the memorial sites out there feel like templates and candles and adverts. We thought there was room for a slower, plainer alternative — one that looks more like a small book than a profile page.
A memorial is made by a writer, a designer, and an archivist — working with the family. Same three people from first call to delivery. You'll know their names.
Sits with the family for an hour or two, by phone or in person. Asks careful questions. Writes the page in plain English — not in funeral-home language, not in marketing language. Drafts come back to you for changes before anything is final.
Lays the page out, sets the type, restores the photographs (removes creases, balances tones, leaves them looking like themselves). Designs the bronze plaque if you've chosen a Q-Box.
Catalogues your family's keepsakes, transcribes voicemails, edits the tribute film if there's footage to make one from. Looks after the page across years — domain renewals, software upgrades, making sure the QR still works in 2050.
Most of the process is at your pace. We'll never push you to approve, share, or upgrade.
A real writer writes every memorial. We don't draft eulogies with a language model — not now, not ever.
One price covers hosting for as long as we exist. If we close, every page is signed over to the Internet Archive with the QR short-URLs intact.
No upsells, no anniversary candles, no re-engagement emails. One memorial, one price, one box.
Passphrase attempts are never logged. Email addresses are never shared.
If we're not, we'll say so on the first call and point you somewhere better.