Show HN: What happens if you disappear • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#11

Post by jyriand » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:38 PM UTC

I'm constantly losing/breaking my credit/debit cards and forgetting about the services I have subscribed to. Usually I'm reminded by an email from a service telling me that they were unable to charge my credit card. Does it mean that next time it happens and i'm subscribed to your service everyone related will be notified of my death?

Edit: I read the description one more time and it seems that you send an email three times. But still I don't see how not answering email is a good way to determine that I'm dead.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#12

Post by midgetjones » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:39 PM UTC

Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#13

Post by pomnia » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:41 PM UTC

jyriand wrote: post #11

I'm constantly losing/breaking my credit/debit cards and forgetting about the services I have subscribed to. Usually I'm reminded by an email from a service telling me that they were unable to charge my credit card. Does it mean that next time it happens and i'm subscribed to your service everyone related will be notified of my death? Edit: I read the description one more time and it seems that you send an email thre…

You will get 3 emails before it happens or you can use email only but then you will need to click on a link every month, whichever works for you.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#14

Post by pomnia » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:43 PM UTC

midgetjones wrote: post #12

Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.

You will need to lose access to all (3) of your social accounts and your email, highly unlikely. One of the reasons why we don't have our own account management ...

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#15

Post by simonsarris » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC

Google already has a service for this:

https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#16

Post by pomnia » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:49 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #15

Google already has a service for this: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive

Good one. Although not available for me using custom domain : getting "Inactive Account Manager is not available for your account. We are sorry, Inactive Account Manager is not available for your account."

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#17

Post by tga » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:53 PM UTC

pomnia wrote: post #5

staticautomatic wrote: post #3

How do I know the site won't die before I do?

It's comfortably running within GAE free quota so even if we disappear it should be up and running ... Gotta pay that domain for max years though ;) Good question, thanks!

Comfortably running on the GAE free quota makes it more, not less likely to disappear unless you're there to move it when Google pulls the plug.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#18

Post by pomnia » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 2:59 PM UTC

tga wrote: post #17

pomnia wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's comfortably running within GAE free quota so even if we disappear it should be up and running ... Gotta pay that domain for max years though ;) Good question, thanks!

Comfortably running on the GAE free quota makes it more , not less likely to disappear unless you're there to move it when Google pulls the plug.

Yeah you are right. I think we are safe for now in the cloud wars ... maybe.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#19

Post by donretag » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

pomnia wrote: post #14

midgetjones wrote: post #12

Cool idea, but what happens if, for instance, I lose access to my email account? Or if the messages start going into my junk folder? I'd hate to scare my loved ones with an email implying I've disappeared/died.

You will need to lose access to all (3) of your social accounts and your email, highly unlikely. One of the reasons why we don't have our own account management ...

3 social accounts? As a person that does not really do social media, I wonder what those 3 accounts are.

Re: Show HN: What happens if you disappear

#20

Post by codingdave » Fri, Nov 04, 2016, 3:14 PM UTC

simonsarris wrote: post #15

Google already has a service for this: https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/account/inactive

Real life already has a service for this. They are called lawyers. They can keep your records on file, you know who they are, they have legal responsibility to keep everything confidential, and when you die... things just work.

I guess this would work for more casual documents, passwords to facebook, whatever. I have a document printed out and kept in our file cabinet for such things, so I would not use this service, but I can see where other people might.