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Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. So even a minor problem like a dead/broken phone becomes a much bigger problem. While not a real emergency the EWC can help, there's extra fields for whatever.
> I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. How many people… a.) Have a personal lawyer? b.) Need to have said lawyer on speed dial? c.) Also need to have the lawyer’s phone number memorized in case they don’t have some way to look up the number?
Re: c). You only get one phone call, right?
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#33If you don't carry a wallet or other ID (I rarely do myself):
Tape or p-touch your name to the back of your phone (esp handy for people like me who always have to spell it) and somebody else's phone number (the number of someone who can help if something happens to you).
I include my email address too. Then if someone finds my phone, or me prostrate with my phone, they can get in touch with help.
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#34Hey HN, EmergencyWalletCards.com is a website I built with the help of my old friend @oedmarap to help bring Emergency Wallet Cards to everyone by making it super easy for anyone to quickly fill, print and fold a card for their wallet, purse, or anywhere you can slip a credit-card into. Check out the intro blog post, try the app out, and let me know what you think!
I have a few suggestions that might make this more useful for an international audience.
- I suggest that you offer people the option to use long dates; 7th June 1980. When reading in a hurry a little redundancy can be helpful.
- abbreviations like DOB, ZIP, etc., are not necessarily universally understood.
- the address should be a free text multiline field to allow addresses to be written in the customary form in different countries. Not everyone has a house number or postal code.
As all the information is optional it would probably be useful to include a field for things like national ID numbers, social security numbers, etc. The point is that this number give emergency medical facilities a way to quickly access a person's medical records in some countries.
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#35Hey HN, EmergencyWalletCards.com is a website I built with the help of my old friend @oedmarap to help bring Emergency Wallet Cards to everyone by making it super easy for anyone to quickly fill, print and fold a card for their wallet, purse, or anywhere you can slip a credit-card into. Check out the intro blog post, try the app out, and let me know what you think!
I like the idea, and appreciate the privacy statement on page. I might add - your info is not sent to our servers / the cloud - it stay in your computer memory..
I feel many people do not understand what stays in your browser does not equal the cloud.. especially since chromebooks became a thing.
Not sure they pay for sales - but a link to have it sent to a printer at the local office max.. not having a printer easily accessible p it's actually convenient to send-rmail-to-print.. I stop by there after picking up coffee and print a few sheets once in a while.. I guess some people would email it to another person for them to print for them..
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#36I couldn't find a link anywhere to some sort of 'blank' PDF example, or to a fake filled out example. Double sided printing would be nice. So would formatting the output so you could cut/fold/staple it down into a little book. Cool idea though. At work (back in the day) we had little laminated pieces of paper crammed with important numbers, a new one every year. Came in quite handy. Having the access to the scarily h…
Making a laminated card is easy with a clothing iron and cheap lamination sheets.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. So even a minor problem like a dead/broken phone becomes a much bigger problem. While not a real emergency the EWC can help, there's extra fields for whatever.
> I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. How many people… a.) Have a personal lawyer? b.) Need to have said lawyer on speed dial? c.) Also need to have the lawyer’s phone number memorized in case they don’t have some way to look up the number?
Ive kicked the idea around to start a company that would attack this issue in a few different ways..
get an app or on the site, enter in some info..
an easy to remember 800 number that is answered 24/7..
the person who answers can unlock the info you saved via the app or web site - and call numbers for your X or your Y and even do it three-way / conference call.. and even call your Z or V after you hang up - to notify you've been detained or whatever.
I think people would pay for this, and it would be easy to freemium - as you could pre-roll a local bail bonds ad when called if freemium user..
I have some other ways to make this work even better with some added tech things.
could even have a set of info that is made available to paramedics / hospitals should they find your emergency card in wallet and such.
now I want to build this more, I'm guessing a premium phone number is not cheap these days, so keeping this in the ideas phase.
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#38This is a good idea. Unfortunately it doesn't like my 6-digit postal code.
https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...
Someone had to do it :)
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is really cool. I've worked in the Emergency Management space for a decade, and this is a clear win - great idea well executed, so kudos. Even if people never look at them, the process of creating them and thinking through personal disaster responses is hugely valuable (plans are nothing, planning is everything). Well done. It's scope creep for sure, but I'd love have a version of this for international travel t…
I've been surprised how many people don't know the number of their doctor, lawyer, siblings, even partners. So even a minor problem like a dead/broken phone becomes a much bigger problem. While not a real emergency the EWC can help, there's extra fields for whatever.
Before speed dial, I used to have everyone's number memorized because it had to be hand dialed.
A couple numbers I don't put in speed dial so I will remember them.
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#40The FEMA PDF that the author refers to but does not link to can be found at [1]. Other resources at [2] and [3]. [1] https://www.ready.gov/sites/default/files/2021-10/family-com... [2] https://www.ready.gov/plan [3] https://www.ready.gov/kids/make-a-plan
Thank you for finding and sharing these links. [1] seems to be an updated version of the PDF. The original inspiration for EWC seems to be gone from ready.gov, but there's a picture of it in my post. If anyone comes across the person/s who designed it, please give them my sincere regards, its genius.