Why we built Memry

I forgot the name of someone I'd just had a 90-minute coffee with. The next day I started building Memry.

The problem nobody admits

If you meet a lot of people — at conferences, at work, at parties — you forget most of them. Names slip first, then context, then the whole conversation. By the next week, all you have is a vague feeling: I think I met them somewhere?

Most people work around this with three half-solutions: writing notes on their phone (slow), saving the contact in their phonebook (no context), or pretending they remember (everyone does this). None of these scale.

Why CRMs don't fix it

I tried CRMs. I tried Notion databases. I tried voice memos in the Notes app. The friction kills it every time. After a long evening meeting people, the last thing I want to do is open a five-field form on my phone.

CRMs are built for sales teams that have a reason to grind through data entry. Most of us aren't running a pipeline — we're just trying to remember the woman who made the great point about urban planning.

Voice on WhatsApp solves it

Almost everyone I know already sends voice notes on WhatsApp. The habit exists. The friction is zero. So we built around that:

• You walk away from someone, hold the WhatsApp record button, talk for 20 seconds about who they are.
• Memry transcribes the voice note in whatever language you spoke, extracts the structure (name, role, context, details), confirms before saving, and remembers it forever.
• Later you ask in plain words — "who was that founder I met in Lisbon?" — and the answer comes back in WhatsApp. No app.

What's different

Three things matter to us, and they're easy to explain:

1. Voice-first, not voice-as-a-feature. The whole product assumes you'd rather talk than type.
2. Multilingual by default. Replies come back in your language, in your script — not romanized, not auto-translated to English.
3. Privacy as the default posture. Reply delete all my data and everything is gone. Your contacts never train someone else's model.

Where we are

Memry is in private testing today. Public waitlist is open. If any of this resonates, sign up — the people who join the waitlist get in first, and your feedback shapes the next month of product.

— Waleed