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Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
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Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
19 SMS messages. Does anyone still pay per text?
> Does anyone still pay per text? It makes much more sense outside the US than to pay for a text bundle. My phone plan includes 0 SMS messages, and I don't know what was the last time when I've had to send one was. It's only useful when someone doesn't have internet, which only happens once every few months at most.
You are generalizing quite a bit here, not everywhere "outside the US" is the same. Here almost all phone plans that aren't data only come with unlimited SMS - and we never paid for receiving them anyway.
Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Learning my 1Password recovery key took quite a while, but should allow me to do a cold reboot of my digital life.
Yubikeys could be cheaper. In addition to the two I have, I bought two more to store offsite with friends and family for redundancy (with access to my password manager + important email accounts).
With a usb stick form factor I would think Yubikey would be doing more to convince consumers a yubikey will not fail like a usb stick (randomly and from disuse).
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#104I really like the idea of trying to solve an existing problem. You forget your phone but how do you access a webpage in an emergency? If this works for you and your personal use case, then everything is fine. But I see a lot of hurdles along the way here. I would rather think of something like: If my phone hasen't been moved over an X amount of time (locations based or accelerometer) the phone drops a note to predfin…
this seems very streamlined and i don't think it would be that hard to find someone to lend you their phone for like 30 seconds
(or ask them to type a message while they hold their own phone obviously. i once was approached and asked to send an email to a relative because they were locked out and without their phone)
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#105I don't get it. Is this for your family to message you in emergency (e.g. they lose their phones) without needing credentials to their 2FA-infested apps of sorts that they're locked out of? Are you not getting a ton of spam from this form being open to public? I've had similar ideas but I'd probably make it something easy to remember like myname.com/message and it quizzes the user or various things that only my famil…
Yeah, I hope this is just a demo that he is showing. You usually are fine if you have a reverseDNS domain name that you don't advertise + CF, but he is now going to get spammed by genuine human traffic.
I have a contact page on my business website. I get about 2 spam messages a day.
So far I have not taken the effort to better filter them. It is a nice check to make sure the site is still working at the moment given the low volume I get.
I should try to AI inject them though at this point with something silly, like I am more likely to respond if you email as a limerick.
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Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#107I get this error while visiting the site
Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access delduca.org
I'm from Germany
Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#108Earlier quoted context omitted.
You remember the URL but not a phone number.
...then put the phone number at the URL
Exactly the point in the conversation... in this case it's a webform to notify directly.. I think a simple password prompt and including an actual list of emergency contacts would be prudent.
Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
That makes no sense. Why don't you just set a char-limit on the input and reject anything that's too long?
If I trim I may lost important context. I understand the concern here.
Have two inputs a summary and a longer text field... kind of like an email subject.
Then limit the text input to like 100 chars, giving another 60 for general "... continued in email to you@..."
Send the summary as the subject, and the full text in the email. easy peasy.
I'd also add a simple text auth/password prompt as well as list the contacts and their respective email and phone numbers too, so you can call easier.
Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family
#110I get this error while visiting the site Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access delduca.org I'm from Germany
Same error, United States. Oh well!