What you get
Four things, all of them digital
Everything arrives on screen the moment you pay, and as files you download and send. Nothing is framed, printed or posted by us.
1. The card
The minute, the line, the name, and who it is from, set in one of three styles. A PNG at 1200 by 630, made to be sent in a message and read at the size of a phone. This one is an example; nobody bought it.
In every plan, from $9.99.
2. The page
Each minute of the calendar has one address on this site, and one story can be kept at it. Yours carries the name and the words, counts down to the next time that minute comes round, and goes up on the front page for sixty seconds each year when it does. It is public by design: it is the thing you send people to.
In every plan. It lasts as long as this site runs; the files are yours whatever happens to us. See the terms, which say exactly that.
3. The printable certificate
A portrait sheet for A4 or Letter, with the minute, the line, the name, the story, and the date it was kept. Print it at home or save it as a PDF from the print dialog. Opening it counts as taking delivery, which ends the fourteen-day courtesy refund. See the example certificate.
With the gift, $19.99, and with the time capsule.
4. The sealed message
A second message, written today and locked until the minute comes round in a year you choose, up to thirty years ahead. Until then nobody can read it, and it is not on the page. It opens by itself, at that minute UTC, and stays open. Keep your own copy: once sealed, we cannot show it to you either.
With the time capsule, $29.99.
Plainly
- One payment. No subscription, no renewal. It is charged by Polar Software Inc., our payment provider and merchant of record, whose name is on the receipt.
- Nothing can be edited after payment: read the card in the preview before you pay. Within fourteen days, and before the certificate is opened, we refund without asking why.
- There is no account. Your minute is found by its address and by the receipt from Polar; keep both.
- It is a symbolic dedication. Nobody can sell you a minute of time, and we do not claim to.
The long version: what you get, and what you don’t.