About Someone I Knew

Someone I Knew started with a pretty simple idea.

Most people have someone from their past they still remember.

A friend from school. Someone they worked with years ago. A person they met while travelling. Someone they once knew well, then somehow lost touch with.

The problem is that memory doesn’t always preserve the useful details.

You might remember their first name, where you knew them from, roughly when it was, and a few random things that stuck.

But not enough to type a perfect search into Google.

That’s the gap Someone I Knew is built for.

Start with what you remember

Instead of asking you to already know the answer, Someone I Knew starts with the memory itself.

You tell us what you remember.

That might be a first name, a workplace, a school, a city, an approximate year, an interest, or something oddly specific that stuck with you.

We then use those details to look across public information and work out what genuinely lines up.

Not one clue.

A combination of clues.

That distinction matters.

We’re not a people-search database

Someone I Knew isn’t designed to give you someone’s private phone number, home address or a giant background report.

That’s not the point.

The goal is much narrower:

Can we help you work out whether you’ve found the person you remember?

We use public sources and deliberately avoid data brokers.

Because in my view, if you genuinely knew someone and want to reconnect, you shouldn’t need to turn it into a surveillance exercise.

Privacy matters here

This kind of product only works if the boundaries are clear.

Someone I Knew is designed around a few simple principles:

• Use public information.
• Avoid private contact details.
• Don’t bypass private profiles.
• Don’t build a complete picture of someone’s life.
• Don’t use the service to monitor or harass someone.

And if someone doesn’t want to reconnect, that’s the end of it.

Pretty simple, really.

Why I built it

I think there’s something very human about remembering someone years later and wondering what became of them.

Sometimes you want to say hello.

Sometimes you just want to know they’re doing okay.

Sometimes you’re not even sure what you want until you find them.

That curiosity is normal.

What matters is how you act on it.

Someone I Knew is meant to make the search part easier without making the whole thing feel intrusive.

Who’s behind it

I’m Eddie, the founder of Someone I Knew.

I built the product around the idea that finding someone from your past should feel thoughtful, not creepy.

That means using the details you actually remember, checking public information carefully, and leaving the final decision to you.

Because the technology can help narrow things down.

It shouldn’t make the human decision for you.