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Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

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Post by KomoD »

ohashi wrote: post #59

I've been working on a similar idea for travelers, https://travelsafetydata.com/ It's pulling the travel advisories from US/CA/UK/IE/AU/NZ and aggregating the results/information to help you understand the risks of different countries. It also pulls from other sources for basic country info/risks (eg. women, lgbtq). Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!

https://travelsafetydata.com/country/SE

How are these "scams & fraud"?

> Make sure your health insurance plan provides coverage overseas. Most care providers overseas only accept credit card payments. See our webpage for more information on insurance overseas. Visit the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for more information on the type of insurance you should consider before you travel overseas.

> Gas stations in rural areas can be far apart. Some stations are unattended and require a credit card with a chip to purchase fuel.

Same with https://travelsafetydata.com/country/NO

It lists child protection laws as "scams & fraud"

Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

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Post by ornornor »

ericbarrett wrote: post #30
randomtoast wrote: post #14

The font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices. You need to consider that users might be in a panic, may not have both hands free to zoom in, and their vision could be impaired by smoke or other factors.

It is astonishing how one's motor skills degrade when the adrenaline is flowing. I once tried to dial 911 on an iPhone in such circumstances. My hands were shaking so badly I kept dialing 922, 811, 914, and so on. Terrible in the moment but a very good lesson for preparedness. I really appreciate the "dial Emergency" methods on modern phone software that just need a button held down.

That’s one of my recurring “disturbing dreams”: I get iban emergency and can’t dial the right numbers.

Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

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Post by ornornor »

ericbarrett wrote: post #70
smallerize wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You might find it easier to dial 112, which is also universal and works outside of the USA.

It's a much saner number, though probably easier to pocket dial as well. I'm not sure how far back it was chosen, but 112 would also dial a lot faster than 911 or 999 on a rotary phone.

I think it came about around 2000.

Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

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Post by LandenLove »

I see that you mentioned no images, but I feel that images would make it easier for quickly locating information. You can probably use some basic svg files to keep the file size small. E.g. a simple design of a building shaking to represent an earthquake.

Right now, I am seeing a flood of text that I have to carefully read. I don't think emoji's would help, because they can be more subject to interpretation. And the quality of the design varies based on the device's emoji font.

But it is an interesting concept. Maybe add a small note about bookmarking the page?

Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

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Post by tinuviel »

deceptionatd wrote: post #79
tinuviel wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here. Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.

I can't tell much about your infrastructure, but memcached would probably increase that by several orders of magnitude. The NGINX module is pretty simple: https://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_memcached_module.htm... Cloudflare with Cache-Control headers is even simpler if you're okay with adding Cloudflare as a dependency. From an ASN lookup, it appears you're hosting on Oracle Cloud, so Cloudflare would also give…

Thank you! I will implement this - the server code is in plain C with NGINX on top so I presume adding memached would be straightforward.
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