The Regret Machine

An idea for an app.

People come up with new resolutions at the end of every year, plans made, goals laid, dreams dreamt.

And then an entire year rolls by and we wonder what happened to all those hopes.

At the start of each year, the app lets you set goals of what you want to achieve, and then records your voice of the regret you would feel having not achieved those goals.

In four or five or ten years’ time, the app plays back those regrets you recorded years ago, and it plays them back all at once.

Your motivation becomes not that you want to change, but that you didn’t change.