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Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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> If they don't have WhatsApp Is this really likely? I would guess only 70 year olds don't have WhatsApp. Seems more likely you forget the impoprtant phone numbers because you never enter them manually.

Nobody in my friend group has a WhatsApp and I'm a millennial.

It doesn’t have to be just for one type of user.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Why is it more likely you'll have internet access when you don't have a phone? If you happen to find a computer, what's insufficient about writing an email?

How will you log into your email from a strange computer without your phone. Gmail has required 2-factor auth for a long time.

I get your point, but believe it or not there's more email services than just Gmail

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Do you know another way to fit a 3000 long message into a 160ish SMS?

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.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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I built life-link almost a year ago for the same purpose: https://github.com/ahmedsaoudi/life_link

I even created a generator so people can configure it with their Telegram/Pushover settings and have it generate a static app easy to host on Netlify or Clouflare Pages/Workers.

Re: Show HN: I made an emergency page for my family

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Before MFA was mandated on every service this was an easy problem to solve. Now when you lose your phone while out and about you lose your ability to log in to even Dave's Speed Cow Milker's Enthusiast Forum unless you're at home with another computer already logged in to various things.

Learning my 1Password recovery key took quite a while, but should allow me to do a cold reboot of my digital life.
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