Some places simply feel good.

The student apartment I shared a few years ago together with my roommate Yannig, is one of them. We named it after the name of the street: Le Saint Maurille.

From the day I moved in I knew this flat would be a memory tank. We were super lucky to have the place. It was a 70 sq. meters apartment right in the city centre. The rent was low since no maintenance had been done in years, it was old and somewhat dirty but, being students, we didn’t mind at all. It formerly belonged to students leaving town for their Erasmus exchange trip. When we moved in, they simply told us : “this place had seem some crazy stuff. Please, take good care of it” and handed us the keys. We had the duty to keep the place alive. We did our best.

I can’t remember the number of parties we threw there, the amount of made up drinking games we played, the countless hours wasted on video games, the long collective study sessions we had on the nights before exams… And that’s actually the problem. I can’t remember. I can’t recall all of these great moments.

Obviously, my friends and I all have pictures related to this place on our laptops somewhere. Some ended up on Facebook against our better judgement. Instead we wished we could have had a way to retrace the life of this place.

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People connect to places.

Most places we live in, work in, or simply spend time in, represent something to us. Whether it’s a kid’s playhouse we spent countless hours playing in, a family house we meet our relatives in every summer, a friend’s place where the whole crew gathers to hangout, an office where colleagues come and go… These places are associated with emotions : joy, sadness, love, pride, struggle, etc. and the people who share these places with us, belong to these places as well

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Stamper, now facilitates and enhances that connection.

At Stamper, we don’t think places are just walls, furniture and a ceiling. We believe places have a unique soul, a history. We believe these stories are worth being cherished, told and shared. Our drive is that every place could carry its own story, made up of real, authentic and individual input from every person to have spent time in those places.

Our true motivation is to change the relation we have with things and places. In order to do so, we want to give people the best tool to easily capture, conserve and share these place-related memories. That’s why we are creating Stamper, a mobile app that will help you answer the question “if walls could talk, what would they say?”

If you are eager to learn more about what we do, please visit: stamperapp.com
@stamperapp