Phone reminders fire at the wrong moment
9am at your desk is not when you need to be told to bring the passport. The door is.
Quick reminders, at the door
You remember the passport in the taxi.
OHryte is a small screen that lives by your front door. Send it a note from your phone — from work, from bed, from another country — and it shows up the next time that door opens. Not in a notification you swipe away. At the door, with your hand on the handle.
$149 CAD for the first 100 · Free shipping in Canada · No app to install
OHryte display mounted beside a front door
The problem is not memory. It is timing.
You did remember the library book. You remembered it at 11pm, in bed, and by 8:40am it was gone again. Every reminder app on your phone fires when you are somewhere you cannot do anything about it — and by the time you are at the door, your phone is in your pocket and your mind is on the bus.
Sticky notes only work if you wrote one
And you cannot write one from the office when you remember at 3pm that your partner needs to take the parcel.
Shared households forget together
One person remembers, everyone else needs telling. A note by the door tells whoever leaves next.
How it works
Three steps, and only one of them is yours.
- 1
Type it anywhere
Open the web page on your phone, type up to 48 characters, tap Add. About five seconds, one-handed. There is nothing to install.
- 2
The device picks it up
Within about fifteen seconds it lands on the display by your door and is saved there. You can watch it move from Sent to On device on your phone.
- 3
The door opens
A magnetic sensor on the frame notices. The screen lights up with your note, and there are two buttons: Got it, or Later if you are only stepping out for the recycling.
Why this one is different
Your internet can die. The reminder still works.
Almost every connected gadget in your house is a remote control for a server somewhere else. Cut the Wi-Fi and it becomes furniture.
OHryte is built the other way round. Once a reminder reaches the device it is written to the device’s own memory, and nothing in the cloud is needed for it to appear. The router can reboot, the internet can go out, our servers could go offline entirely — the door still opens, the screen still lights up, your reminder is still there.
The cloud is the mailbox. The device is the thing that remembers.
What people put on it
Short, physical, and easy to forget. That is the whole category.
- Passport — Zoé’s in the drawer
- Take the recycling out
- Library books by the stairs
- Parcel for the post office
- Gym bag is in the car already
- Buy milk on the way home
- Dentist 14h — leave by 13h30
- Grandma’s birthday card to post
The first batch is 100 units.
$149 CAD for people on the waitlist, $189 CAD afterwards. Free shipping in Canada. Assembled in Quebec. Joining costs nothing and commits you to nothing — it tells us whether to build them.
Join the waitlistOne email when the first batch is ready. Nothing else, ever.