After losing someone dear to him during the war in Ukraine, Maxim Tretjakov could not attend the funeral or visit the grave. That became the foundation for Reqiem.
The problem Reqiem solves is not a niche one. Millions of people live far from where their families are buried - through migration, conflict, or simply the way modern life scatters people across countries and time zones. When someone dies, the grief is complicated by distance. There is no grave to visit, no shared physical space, and no way for a family spread across the world to grieve in the same place at the same time.
Maxim Tretjakov built Reqiem because he lived that experience directly. After losing someone close during the war in Ukraine, he could not travel to attend the funeral or stand at the grave. He looked for a proper digital alternative and found nothing built for the purpose. Most platforms offered basic obituary pages. None offered the kind of permanent, accessible memorial that a dispersed family could genuinely gather around.
A Permanent Place to Return To
Reqiem is built around memorial pages that families can create, visit, and contribute to from anywhere in the world. The pages are designed to be permanent - not a social media post that scrolls away or a temporary tribute that disappears. Families can add photos, stories, and memories over time, building a record that lives on and can be returned to years later.
The accessible-from-anywhere architecture is central to the product. A family member in Kyiv, one in London, and one in Toronto can all visit the same memorial page, leave tributes, and feel connected to the same place - even when the physical distance makes a shared visit impossible.
Reqiem launched on Product Hunt today. The founding story gives the product a clarity of purpose that is rare: it was not built to capture a market, but to solve a specific, deeply felt problem that Tretjakov could not find a solution to anywhere else.
Reqiem is available at reqiem.com.
