It’s been quiet here. For four months I didn’t publish anything because a lot was happening behind the scenes. That time fundamentally changed my approach—from tone and format to the product itself.
1) Limits of “Blog + Social”
The earlier mix of blog, social media, and short anecdotes (comic-style visuals, optimistic and a bit naive) performed increasingly well—especially on TikTok—but not in the way I want for family stories and interpersonal communication. I need a more mature tone, closer to people who truly care about passing on family memories—especially in the German-speaking world.
2) The New Idea: An App Built Around “Echoes”
In recent months I worked intensively with LLM APIs (including ChatGPT). I noticed a potential that many projects overlook:
You can “load” an LLM with your own text or audio, confine it to that source, and then hold a Q&A conversation with precisely this material.
The effect: almost any long text or recording becomes a living, queryable memory—a kind of personal spokesperson that preserves the source’s tone, vocabulary, and content.
3) What This Led to for Samsechoes
From this experience a new, low-threshold offer emerged:
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Long-term archive: simple and cost-effective to create and preserve.
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Interview + Echo: a specialized interview (by someone who focuses solely on interviewing) forms the basis; from it, an echo is created that can be queried later.
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Goal: not a “big” professional biography, but a friendly starting point to collect family memories in a structured way—often more than enough.
4) Change of Focus: The Blog Continues, Priority on App & Offer
I’ll continue the blog and the samsechoes platform, but I’m setting a clear priority on testing the app and the “Interview + Echo” offer to understand the real potential.
5) The App Is Here—Try It
I built the application. You can test it here:
app.samsechoes.com
User: sama@samsechoes.com
Password: iamsama
Feel free to try it right away and send feedback—especially on clarity, usability, and value.
6) Offers & Pages Reorganized
There are now clear options: “Echo only” and “Interview + Echo.” I also created landing pages for people who want to participate as interviewers.
You’ll find everything on samsechoes.com. Older content remains available under “many other services” and on the blog.
7) Why Echoes Are Something New in Communication
I’m sharing regularly on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and especially LinkedIn what echoes are: a quasi-asynchronous dialogue with a long-form piece of content that gives recipients freedom—when and in what order to explore topics.
This is new for long conversations (2–4 hours of material):
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Reception is non-intrusive—people can ask questions at their own pace and along their own logic.
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The input doesn’t need to be stylistically “perfect”—the echo provides clear expression faithful to the source.
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Multiple contributions can be combined into a 360° view of a topic.
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And answers can be delivered in many languages with high quality—removing one of communication’s biggest hurdles.
In short: Echoes create shared understanding (“common ground”) and faster, respectful alignment in situations where length, complexity, or emotion easily lead to misunderstandings.
An Ancient Myth, a New Tool
The story of the Tower of Babel shows how language can separate people. This is exactly where the technology comes in: it makes content queryable, translatable, and accessible—in a way that preserves the meaning of the source.
Want to try it?
Test the app, ask questions to the sample echo, and tell me where it helps with your family stories—and where something is still missing.
I’m looking forward to your feedback.
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