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Dear Self
The August 1, 2026 operator article says the public version ended that day: users could no longer email Dear Self and receive a reply. The current homepage confirms that entries and replies are no longer accepted.
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The record
An AI email journal that accepted personal entries, retrieved earlier writing by meaning and replied in the same email thread with reflections and recurring patterns.
- Operator at shutdown
- Dear Self Company source
- Launched
- Unknown
- Discontinued
- 1 Aug 2026Closure source
How it ended
The August 1, 2026 operator article says the public version ended that day: users could no longer email Dear Self and receive a reply. The current homepage confirms that entries and replies are no longer accepted.
Why I’m Shutting Down Dear Self — founder’s completed-closure statement ↗ · Checked 9 Oct 2026
Sources and verification
- Shutdown
- August 1, 2026 is the actual same-day public-service cutoff stated in the dated operator article, not a proxy. The cutoff hour and time zone are unverified. This record covers the complete public AI email-journaling service, whose independent user interface was email. The continued availability of source code for independent deployment does not mean the public service continues. Although the site describes the code as open source, no explicit LICENSE file was found in the linked repository, so no open-source licensing claim is made here. Terms and privacy policy identify the Dear Self operator brand and only a broad European Union operating region; no country, city or coordinates are inferred from the Frankfurt hosting region. Closure source
- Dates checked
- Announced 1 Aug 2026 · Verified 9 Oct 2026
- AI functionality
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- Launch
- The original launch date is unverified. The April 21, 2026 legal-page update is not treated as a launch announcement.