Video
One video per classmate
Fifteen seconds each. Nine or ten fills the whole route.
Why it works
The envelope takes ten seconds to open. Four years fit in the walk to it.
The ceremony runs two hours, the photos get taken and everyone goes home. The gift changes hands in a corridor and that is the end of it.
A route through the places they were, carrying the voices of the people they were there with, is what turns that envelope into the close of a chapter. And it gets built by several people, which is the only way it makes sense.
The gift sits at the end of the route
The trip, the dinner, whatever you all chipped in for: it appears when they solve the last step, not before.
You build it together
Each classmate records their piece on their own phone and sends it over. You just order the pieces.
In the actual places
The café, the library, the lecture hall from day one. The places they won't set foot in again in five years.
In three steps
How to build the gift
Collecting the videos is the slow part. Start two weeks out.
Decide what's at the end
The graduation trip, a dinner, a photo album. That's the final screen, and the route gets written backwards from there.
Ask the group chat for videos
Fifteen seconds each, filmed on a phone. Each video goes where it belongs: the library one in the library.
Send the link on the day
After the ceremony, while the family is still there and nobody has left yet.
Full example
A campus route that ends in the graduation trip
Ninety minutes on ceremony day, built by nine classmates.
- VideoStep 1
Congratulations. Now start walking.
Twenty seconds of the whole class shouting at the camera from the faculty steps.
- GPSStep 2
The lecture hall from day one
Where they walked in knowing nobody four years ago. The step opens at the door.
- TriviaStep 3
Remember first year?
Five questions about the course: which module half the class failed, the porter's name, the lecturer who passed nobody.
- AudioStep 4
A lecturer has something to say
Recorded behind their back by all of you. Nobody sees this step coming, and it always ends in a hug.
- RiddleStep 5
The café order
"Type what you ordered every day at eleven." Four years of the same order makes a good clue.
- GPSStep 6
The library, one last time
The usual table, with a video from the people who sat around it.
- CodeStep 7
Your group's number
The room, the year, the class number. Four digits that only mean something to you lot.
- Final screen
We're going on the graduation trip
Nine people, five days, dates already booked. The fund has been open two years and nobody said a word.
Idea bank
Step ideas for the road to the gift
There are 13 types. These are the ones that close a chapter best.
GPS
The campus places
The hall, the café, the smoking steps. Each with its own step and its own memory.
Trivia
Questions about the course
Lecturers, impossible modules, first-year stories. Answered laughing.
Audio
A lecturer's voice
Recorded in secret. The step nobody expects and the one everyone talks about afterwards.
Photos
Order four years of photos
First year to last. Seeing the change in sequence is a cheap emotional hit and it works.
Code
The class number
A year, a room, a group number. Something that only means anything inside your class.
Variants
By the chapter that's ending
University graduation
Around campus, stopping at lecture halls and the library. Ninety minutes on ceremony day.
Leaving school
Shorter, with family in it. The parents' videos carry as much weight as the classmates'.
End of a master's
Small groups and people who came from abroad. Works well with videos from those who can't be there.
A teacher's send-off
Flip it: the students build the route and the person retiring plays it.
Reviews
What users are saying
I'm a teacher and used it to create an end-of-year treasure hunt. The 5th graders spent the whole morning engaged solving clues around the school. The step where they had to shake the phone to "break the lock" was absolute chaos, in the best sense. The following week three parents asked me how it was done so they could do it at home.
Our story in 10 steps so our children could understand how their mother and I met. There are things we had never told. It was a very special afternoon. My 9-year-old son asked if he could make one for his grandmother.
Brilliant idea. I got muddled with the order of the steps at first, until I saw you just drag them, and after that I had it done in twenty minutes. I used it for our team building and everyone loved it. The shake step was the funniest thing we've ever done in a meeting.
Public or private. That is the whole decision.
The mechanism is identical in both: the same challenges, the same steps, the same ending. The only thing that changes is who can reach your adventure.
Identical in both
- All 13 instruments, none held back
- Unlimited steps, no expiry
- You write the ending: letter, photo or video
- Link and QR ready the moment you publish
The only thing that changes
Public
FREE
no cost · no expiry
Anyone can find it
It goes up on Explore and anyone can play it. Good if what you want is to be discovered.
- It goes up on Explore, so people find you
- Classic and pirate themes
Private
$9.99
one-time · per challenge
Only whoever has your link
It appears in no listing and no search engine. If you have not sent them the link, it does not exist for them.
- Schedule the exact date and time it opens
- Optional password, if you want another door
- Cyberpunk and romantic themes, plus the usual two
No subscription · no card to start
With videos of classmates and lecturers inside, go private: only whoever has the link can open it.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Eight or ten at fifteen seconds is plenty. Beyond that the gaps between steps start to drag.
Got the gift already?
Then what's left is the road to it. Ask the group chat for videos today and the route takes an afternoon.
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