FutureMe has 15 million letters in its database. They've been there since 2002. Some of them will be there in 2050. Evengood will have zero. This week I shipped The Quiet Letter — a feature where you write to your future self today, we email it on a date you pick, and we hard-delete the row from our database within 24 hours of sending it. The email is the only artifact. We don't keep a copy. Every feature in Evengood is built around a question: what would a journaling app look like if it weren't trying to maximize for retention? What I shipped this week A new page at /letter. You write a letter to yourself. Voice or text. You pick a delivery date between 7 days and 5 years from now. You enter your email. You hit seal. We send a confirmation email — double opt-in, same as our Sunday pattern email. You confirm. The letter sits in our database in exactly the state you wrote it. On the date you picked, an hourly cron job picks it up and emails it to you.…