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I made the same thing seven years or so ago: http://www.deadmansswitch.net As for the trust issues, you can easily just say "look under the porch in my house", you don't have to reveal all the information there. Or, just encrypt things.
Yes, I'd gladly share my super-secret - so secret I only want it revealed when I die - stuff with some random website. No bueno. I'm sorry, but this is basically one of those services you can't really run on a hosted environment. I think the ultimate solution is a dead man's switch that is tied to something physical, aka a password in a bank vault that unencrypts a file somewhere. Yes, you have to trust the bank, but…
Once it earns some trust, it could offer to sell your startup/website/app to someone that would do a good job of maintaining it (or release it as open source).
Sounds like a suboptimal configuration for a dead man's switch. If you're unavailable, you aren't around for contingencies.
It's super easy to add email accounts with this: https://www.dailycred.com (I'm a co-founder)
I made the same thing seven years or so ago: http://www.deadmansswitch.net As for the trust issues, you can easily just say "look under the porch in my house", you don't have to reveal all the information there. Or, just encrypt things.
Nice. Do you actually make a reasonable amount of money the on service? The reason I ask is because these dollar/lifetime web services are popping up more, and I find it to be an interesting pricing model
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You don't need to tell where , and you can use a one-off generated password that you really didn't memorize.
A) The idea is that the "rubber hose collection" leads to you revealing where it is, and B) if it's a generated password, how will you stop the deadman's switch in the event of getting away?
I made the same thing seven years or so ago: http://www.deadmansswitch.net As for the trust issues, you can easily just say "look under the porch in my house", you don't have to reveal all the information there. Or, just encrypt things.
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Nice. Do you actually make a reasonable amount of money the on service? The reason I ask is because these dollar/lifetime web services are popping up more, and I find it to be an interesting pricing model
Not overly, but it's just a side project for me. I should start marketing it more, I chose the lifetime pricing model because downgrading someone's account if they died didn't really make sense for the project...
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Not overly, but it's just a side project for me. I should start marketing it more, I chose the lifetime pricing model because downgrading someone's account if they died didn't really make sense for the project...
For a while now I've wondered if possibly your service could tie into IFTTT. That would be really cool.
A problem with that is that people can have custom intervals per-message, so they can have one for "I'm missing for a day", one for a month, etc, so there's no "one" switch. I could make one, though, I guess.