366 lives · one year of humanity
One page per life. One story per day.
366 real human stories, written around the world and chosen by human readers. Free forever. One copy will travel to space.
Your story will be read with care by real people. It may end up in the book, but no one can buy that chance.
Contribute from USD 2 · suggested USD 5 · if we don't reach 1,000 before December 5, 2026, we refund your contribution minus the transaction fee.
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of 1,000 founding pages reserved
The book is born when we reach 1,000.
The manifesto
What goes untold also disappears.
We come into this world with limited time. There are moments that transformed us and are written nowhere. While we remember them, they exist. When we are gone, they could disappear too.
The Universal Book of Humanity is born from the desire to keep a small part of everything that is usually lost: 366 real stories, one for every day of the year.
We are not looking for famous lives. We are looking for human lives.
The promise, without fine print
Guaranteed
You will be read
Other humans will read your story with care. That is the only guaranteed reward.
Not guaranteed
We do not promise selection
Your story may end up among the 366, but paying or taking part does not buy a place in the book. We say it up front.
The sacred numbers
The rules fit in six numbers
- 366 final stories
- A full year of humanity, including February 29.
- 1 page per story
- Every story carries the same weight. Each one takes up the same space.
- 1,000 threshold to be born
- The book is born when 1,000 people reserve their page.
- Contribution USD 2 minimum · USD 5 suggested · open amount
- The contribution helps launch the project and slows automated abuse. It never buys probability.
- 6 monthly waves
- Collection happens across 6 windows, closing on day 5.
- Peer reading 10 stories · 15 duels · rescue < 8
- Every participant helps choose. If a story gets little reading, it enters rescue.
How it works
Six steps, from one life to the calendar
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You reserve your page
The contribution verifies intent and stops automation, but it does not buy selection.
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You write a life on one page
Up to 3,000 characters or an optional 3-minute audio.
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You read other humans
You receive an anonymous batch of stories. Nobody knows whose page is whose.
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You choose by resonance
Two stories at a time. One question: "Which of these two touched you more?".
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A human council composes the book
It reads the finalists and builds the calendar of 366 stories.
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The book becomes a ritual
One story per day, free forever, and one copy bound for space.
The Voyager story
In 1977, a few people chose humanity's message to the cosmos. Fifty years later, anyone can write and everyone can choose.
September 5, 1977
Voyager 1 lifts off carrying the Golden Record: humanity's message, curated by a few.
September 5, 2026
The Universal Book of Humanity opens: this time anyone writes, and everyone chooses.
September 5, 2027
Exactly 50 years after the Golden Record, humanity answers itself with a book.
Stone rules
Some rules are not up for negotiation
Money never buys the probability of being in the book.
One life, one page. The contribution is per person, not per story.
The digital edition is free forever.
No advertising inside the book. No selling of data. Ever.
AI organizes and classifies; only humans choose.
There are no reserved seats: the famous, the powerful and patrons take part like everyone, or not at all.
0 / 1,000
The book is born when we get there together.
Deadline: December 5, 2026
Your contribution is charged when you reserve. If we don't reach 1,000 reservations before December 5, 2026, we refund every person their contribution minus the gateway's transaction fee: that fee is the cost of taking part.
Not one peso of the funds is spent before crossing the threshold: in the ledger they appear as conditioned funds.
Take part
Reserve a page
- You will be read by real humans.
- The contribution does not buy selection.
- If the project isn't born, you get your contribution back minus the transaction fee.
Paying more never increases the probability of being in the book.
Reserve my pageTransparency
Every contribution can be verified.
Here you can see how much the project has received, where it came from, how much has been used, and how much remains available.
- Confirmed reservations
- 0
- Total received from contributions
- USD 0
- Sponsor contributions
- USD 500
- Total received
- USD 500
- Total used
- USD 200
- Current balance
- USD 300
The founder's compensation is 10% of the amount received through participant contributions. Sponsor contributions are excluded from this calculation.
View the public ledger →Questions
Honest questions, straight answers
The contribution is not a price: it is deliberate friction. Paying with a real method stops bots and mass submissions, and confirms there is a person behind every page. That is why the floor is USD 2: enough to stop automation, not to exclude anyone.
It guarantees that your story will be read with care by other humans, and that you take part in the selection. It does not guarantee a place among the 366: that is the honest lottery, and we say it up front.
No. Never. It is the first stone rule: money does not buy probability. The contribution field is open because some people want to give more to the project — not because it changes anything.
We refund every contribution minus the gateway's transaction fee (approximately 5% + USD 0.50). The charge happens immediately when you reserve, but if we don't reach 1,000 before December 5, 2026, the project isn't born and every person receives their refund within about 10 to 30 business days, depending on their bank. The fee is not returned: it is the cost of taking part, and we say it up front. Until the threshold is crossed, the funds remain untouched.
Writing opens on September 5, 2026. By reserving you are in, and we will email you when your window opens. Story submissions close on March 5, 2027.
Yes. We verify uniqueness, not identity: what matters to us is that every page belongs to a distinct person, not your documents. We never ask for legal identification or biometrics.
The planned license is Creative Commons BY 4.0: you keep the rights to your story; anyone may translate and share it with attribution; the version in your original language is canonical forever.
No. Nobody. Presidents, celebrities and patrons take part like everyone — same contribution, same oath, same blind jury — or they don't take part. None of the 366 pages can be bought or reserved through influence.
The minimum: your public name or pseudonym, your email, your country if you choose to share it, and a technical fingerprint of the payment method to ensure each person founds a single page. No third-party trackers, no selling of data. And deleting means deleting.
First, the participants themselves: each one reads an anonymous batch and chooses by resonance, in duels of two stories. With that ranking, a human editorial council reads the finalists and composes the calendar of 366. AI only organizes; only humans choose.
A life fits on a page. A year can hold 366. The rest depends on us getting there together.
Reserve my pageFrom USD 2. The amount does not change your chances. If we don't reach 1,000, we refund your contribution minus the transaction fee.