Our memories are trapped in obsolete devices

A lot of people have a drawer like this somewhere at home: old action camera gear, SD cards, hard drives, cables, and devices that technically still work, but haven’t been touched in years. There’s often an old GoPro in there that still turns on, which is almost worse, because it proves the device isn’t broken. It’s the workflow around it that has quietly collapsed.

And that’s one of the reasons so much action camera footage ends up forgotten. The camera isn’t usually the issue. It’s everything around it. Modern laptops don’t have the ports these devices were designed for, so you suddenly need adapters just to begin. Batteries don’t hold charge like they used to. File sizes have exploded. Hard drives are slow. And the apps you relied on back then may have changed, stopped being supported, or require logins you no longer remember.

Over time, even copying footage starts to feel like a project, and the older the device gets, the harder it becomes. So the footage stays where it is. You upgrade, you move on, you tell yourself you’ll organise it “one day”… and then life keeps moving.

Action cameras are meant to help us capture the best moments. But for many people, they also create a kind of digital clutter that makes you avoid your own footage. It’s not because you don’t care. It’s because the gap between filming and revisiting is full of small, annoying steps, and once you’ve had a few busy weeks, “I’ll deal with it later” becomes months or years.

That gap is exactly what we’re building Classer to solve. Because the real problem isn’t filming. It’s making your memories easy to return to.

The tech moves fast. But memories don’t.