The ReStart is a gift registry built for people starting over. Divorce is its own kind of restart — and like any new beginning, it deserves its own moment, its own table set, its own first night in a new apartment.
We built the ReStart because the people we love wanted to help, and they didn’t know how. A registry gives them a way in: a list of the small, ordinary things that make a house feel like a home again. Sheets. A coffee maker. A good knife. The pan you’ve been borrowing from your sister.
How it works
Create a free account, build a registry from any retailer you like, and share it with whoever you want — by link, by email, or just from your account page. There’s no fee and no commission. We don’t take a cut of purchases; gifts go directly through the retailers you choose.
Why we built this
Wedding registries get a whole industry. Baby registries do too. Divorce — which is, statistically, almost as common — gets nothing. We thought that was strange. So we made a place for it.
The team
Andrew Reider came up with the idea, which he’ll be the first to tell you is a little ironic — he’s happily married, the kind of happily married that involves two kids and a brilliant wife named Michelle. But he’s watched people he cares about go through divorce, and he noticed the gap. He handles everything that isn’t the fun part: the paperwork, the bills, the logistics that keep the lights on. He’d probably describe his role as reluctant, but the site wouldn’t exist without him.
Laura Glyda is the only person on the team who has actually been through a divorce. Hers was messy, and necessary, and she came out the other side knowing exactly what the experience needed to feel like from the inside. She’s the reason the site looks the way it does — the colors, the tone, the overall feeling that this is a place built with care. Everywhere you find warmth on the ReStart, Laura put it there.
Andrew Neher (we call him Techy Andrew; there are two of us) hasn’t been married or divorced, but he grew up watching it happen: ten divorces in his close family, by his count. He’s the one who built the thing. He’ll tell you he prefers machines to people and has never met a puzzle he could walk away from. Both of those things turn out to be useful when you’re building software.
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