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I don't see the back story anywhere on the site, but I hope your child is okay!
He is, it was a minor scare. But a scare nonetheless, and it was on a toy that had been recalled months ago. Its amazing, but there are a lot of toys and kids' furniture that have been recalled and yet are still available for purchase on amazon!
If you're letting people enter in their credit card information at any point for any reason you MUST get an SSL certificate and force people to use a TLS secured connection. Infosec 101
It doesn't include any real verification, so it doesn't give any assurance that you are who you purport to be, but it at least prevents people's credit card numbers from being sent across the web in plain text.
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I suspect he's just grabbed this template: https://wrapbootstrap.com/theme/triangle-multi-purpose-templ... but yes, you make an excellent point. Equally I agree with his approach of using a $9 template before validating w customers and working out the business model...not sure what the theme site says about the images licence wise but it's not necessarily a bad abstraction to assume that images included with a templa…
Seems really unlikely that template has licensed all those images either given it's from a template farm that looks like they churn these things out and the many sources.
I don't really know if I believe that, but there we are.
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Not a parent yet, but I'd probably use something like this less as something to find out if there's a choking hazard, but in case there's something I don't think of that might be a problem. Fire hazard because it shipped with a faulty power regulator the overheats? Exploding batteries? Those are things that I wouldn't be able to tell at first glance that they'd necessarily be a problem.
How far does this rabbit hole go, though? Your kid may just as well be the first victim of a yet unknown fault. You can't protect them from everything and trying to do so will only cause you anxiety. Wouldn't you rather spend your mental energy on something more positive?
Assuming it's as easy as lifting my phone and scanning a barcode after the occasional toy purchase. Then I can forget about it.
Agree you can't give up common sense, and you shouldn't obsess about it, but it's silly to not remove a toy if there is a known defect that causes deaths.
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Sure, as a parent you should be able to decide what the appropriate response is. But at least to me this particular class of problems does not need an app but simple common sense.
Not a parent yet, but I'd probably use something like this less as something to find out if there's a choking hazard, but in case there's something I don't think of that might be a problem. Fire hazard because it shipped with a faulty power regulator the overheats? Exploding batteries? Those are things that I wouldn't be able to tell at first glance that they'd necessarily be a problem.
Really cool idea but how do you plan for this to pay for itself? I imagine the time commitment is pretty high to have to go through all toy recalls and/or safety hazards. It's one thing to only need to pay for servers but a humans time? Maybe you could use Mechanical Turk and then just feed donation into a bank account linked to it. I love these little one-off sites but I worry that in a few years time they will all…
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How far does this rabbit hole go, though? Your kid may just as well be the first victim of a yet unknown fault. You can't protect them from everything and trying to do so will only cause you anxiety. Wouldn't you rather spend your mental energy on something more positive?
Agree. But I think that's the idea behind the concept. Don't want to spend time worrying about it, but if there is a known defect discovered later about something I bought, I would like to know about it. Assuming it's as easy as lifting my phone and scanning a barcode after the occasional toy purchase. Then I can forget about it. Agree you can't give up common sense, and you shouldn't obsess about it, but it's silly…
Also, in most reasonable countries products that are known to cause deaths are removed from the market instead of continuing to be sold with the "buyer beware" assumption.
If you're letting people enter in their credit card information at any point for any reason you MUST get an SSL certificate and force people to use a TLS secured connection. Infosec 101
At a bare minimum you can get a free SSL cert here - https://www.startssl.com/?app=1 It doesn't include any real verification, so it doesn't give any assurance that you are who you purport to be, but it at least prevents people's credit card numbers from being sent across the web in plain text.
Which is probably how no one individual's card info was stolen, ever.
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How about both?
Sure, as a parent you should be able to decide what the appropriate response is. But at least to me this particular class of problems does not need an app but simple common sense.