Take the nostalgia quiz.
Choose your era and tell us about childhood consoles, after-school snacks, favorite genres, bedroom-wall icons, and the objects you still think about.
Arcade weekendsPop-punk CDsSaturday cartoonsY2K tech
AI-curated nostalgia
Unbox the year you miss most.
Tell us what shaped your childhood. TimeCrate turns your games, music, snacks, and obsessions into a limited mystery box from the 90s or Y2K era.
Limited monthly drops · Up to 500 boxes per release
Your era, decoded
A capsule assembled around your actual memories—not a random clearance bundle.
The TimeCrate promise
Mystery without the junk drawer.
TimeCrate is a new kind of nostalgia shop. We are building it around transparent drops, thoughtful sourcing, and personalization you can feel when the lid opens.
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Taste-first curation
Your quiz answers guide the era, categories, and cultural details inside your box.
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Responsible vintage sourcing
We seek inventory through vintage wholesalers, liquidators, and local estate-sale networks.
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Clearly limited drops
Every release has a published cap, so the scarcity is real and expectations stay clear.
From memory to mystery box
Three steps back in time.
AI finds the pattern. Humans pack the feeling.
Preference signals shape the brief; sourced finds and era-right surprises make every crate tangible.
Press record before you break the seal.
Each box is built for discovery, sharing, and trading the finds that belong in someone else’s timeline.
Choose your depth
Two ways to rewind.
Select the level of discovery that fits your shelf. Contents vary because every crate follows a different timeline.
Nostalgia Starter
A focused hit of your era
A personalized mix for casual collectors, gift-givers, and anyone chasing one perfect flashback.
$49/month
Collector’s Vault
More finds, deeper cuts
A larger curation for serious nostalgia hunters, with room for rarer and more collectible pieces.
$99/month
Start with your memories
Let your favorite era call the shots.
Five quick prompts help us understand the games, music, snacks, and collectibles that made your timeline yours. We use the signal to guide the mystery—not to promise a specific item.
Take the Find Your Era quiz05
Quick signal check
Era · games · music · snacks · collectibles
Your past is waiting
Which year would you open again?
Start with the memories only you know. We’ll turn them into a crate worth opening on camera.