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Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by wilrnh »

kwhitefoot wrote: post #34
wilrnh wrote: post #2

Hey 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 d…

Agreed: this first release was focused on mirroring the original FEMA PDF. I would love to see the card evolve to be much more internationalized.

In fact, one of the reasons I chose to build an app around the PDF, instead of simply using PDF form fields, was to open up the possibility of rich customization. Maybe something like detecting locality preferences of the browser to customize the EWC form might be interesting.

(Also these are great suggestions, please feel free to open GH issues for them!)

Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by wilrnh »

vmh1928 wrote: post #31

Always good to have a copy of this along: https://www.aclu.org/files/assets/bustcard_eng_20100630.pdf

Excellent idea thank you. I added this to https://github.com/wilrnh/emergencywalletcards.com/issues/1. Even if something like this cannot be included directly on the EWC, maybe a bunch of QR codes linking to stuff like this might be useful on the back.

Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by wilrnh »

csw-001 wrote: post #3
wilrnh wrote: post #2

Hey 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!

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…

Thank you :)

And this is a great idea (please consider adding an issue on GH); I think many will benefit from EWC using them in unfamiliar conditions such as traveling. I wonder what would be a good way to remind users to print an updated EWC before traveling.

Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by toomuchtodo »

wilrnh wrote: post #44
toomuchtodo wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Consider adding a QR code for that link.

Very nice idea to both save real estate and obfuscate URLs - I might steal it :)

I insist! Keep in mind permanence of the data (static vs dynamic QR codes). A QR code can store about 3kb worth of data (or ~4300 alphanumeric characters).

https://superuser.com/questions/1420058/how-does-a-dynamic-q...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11065415/how-much-data-i...

Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by kwhitefoot »

wilrnh wrote: post #41
kwhitefoot wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 d…

Agreed: this first release was focused on mirroring the original FEMA PDF. I would love to see the card evolve to be much more internationalized. In fact, one of the reasons I chose to build an app around the PDF, instead of simply using PDF form fields, was to open up the possibility of rich customization. Maybe something like detecting locality preferences of the browser to customize the EWC form might be interesti…

> Maybe something like detecting locality preferences of the browser to customize the EWC form might be interesting.

So long as the user can override them. My browser language preference is en-gb but that does not mean that I want to use dd/mm/yyyy date formats. Also someone with a non-English browser preference might nonetheless prefer to use English as the language of the form if they travel outside their home country.

> feel free to open GH issues for them! Curses, now I have to do some work! :-)

Re: Show HN: Emergency Wallet Cards

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Post by OJFord »

mlac wrote: post #13
OJFord wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about If that's not fulfilling 'nice', it's a pretty simple job for someone that can laser engrave, I wonder what Shapeways or similar would charge for a credit card sized sheet of something, engraved with the info for example.

Not OP, but it’s cheaper in terms of time to just order it online and have it shipped to your house. One interaction and it shows up, vs going to a library or stationary shop, transferring the data or filling it out there, etc.

OK, sure. You can do that with standard printing and laminating too though (just not for under a pound/dollar of course) - my point was the process, not the venue.
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