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> I've installed dozens of life-safety-critical services and none of them had ads or the Facebook SDK Can you give a few examples? > none of them had ads The comment was about the …

While Spotify crashing on launch may be a nuisance, this also affects life-critical apps crashing on launch. Our forensic analysis [1] found that half of the top 21 iOS safety apps…

Done! Thanks so much for suggesting!

Here you go — findings for LiveSafe: Branch, Crashlytics, DoubleClick, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager Our understanding is that it's an enterprise app not available to consum…

Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this. I absolutely understand your concerns and I would be equally skeptical if I was reading this. Ultimately, anyone is free to repe…

Hi HN! I'm Marinos, engineer and Parachute founder We originally developed Checkup as a way for changemakers around the world to alert their colleagues and loved ones in case they …

I've had an office/desk at WeWork in NYC since 2014 (although I almost never use it any more). It's been interesting to see WeWork's evolution through the years. At the beginning, …

I started Parachute [1] by accident when I won the TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 Hackathon with its first prototype. I dropped everything else I was doing and launched it right here o…

Parachute | Engineer | New York or Remote | Full Time, Part Time, Visa | https://parachute.live Parachute is building the future of emergency management. The Parachute app livestre…

Hi HN! I'm Marinos, I made this. To give you a little bit of background, soon after launching Witness [1], I started hearing from a diverse set of organizations who saw Witness as …

Witness | getwitness.com | Engineer #2 | New York | Full Time, Visa Witness lets you broadcast your location, audio and video to your friends and loved ones with one touch. I made …

:) I was lucky enough to work for a great company [1] that was very techy so in terms of the culture it wasn't much of a transition. The hardest part (which I am still working on) …

I'll check it out, thanks for recommending

Interesting. Have you been asked that before? I've done a fair amount of going in and out of the country and was never asked

Thanks! The functionality does not depend on the person's friends joining the app

I think this goes without saying, but absolutely not. Data will never be available to anyone in any way, shape or form, except people chosen by you. I am adding this to the website…

My experience was exactly the same. The record button on the camera app is small and hard to hit if you're running/your hands are shaky. Also if you touch the screen while recordin…

You've hit the nail right on the head. A 2-stage process (1-record 2-notify) is definitely the number one feature request. For this version, I wanted to keep things super simple an…

Yes, I'm already working on an Android version and an Apple Watch version. I'm really excited about the new Apple watch which is rumored to have a camera because it seems like the …

Unfortunately not - I picked the name at 4am at the Disrupt hackathon and, at that point, name collisions were the least of my worries. In fact, there's a ton of apps in the App St…

Yes, I have heard about this as well. A bunch of people from India have emailed me about using Witness there and some have already been field-testing it. This version does work in …

I actually asked a bunch of psychologists about this. Most people will either freeze or run. If your inbuilt reaction is to run, you are already in the lucky group. The goal is to …