Nice touch to have it bilingual in Canada.
Maybe add Spanish?
Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
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#22... for North America.
> for North America
Correct? Straight from the text: "a text-first emergency info site for USA and Canada"
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#23Normally I would say this doesn't matter much, but I wonder if a shorter domain name (or just one without a dash in it) might be in order here. I don't think I would want to be typing or remebering "safe-now.live" in an emergency
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#24I'm seeing fires from 1999.
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#25I think people would be more interested in the heavy emergencies, not just the ultra light ones
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#26Local news needs timestamps… I see stale last-week weather news. Had to click and see date from last week in the article.
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#27Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI could convert the normal page into a PWA for you. The PWA has the advantage that it will also load when the internet is down and there is no need to save the page manually.
How can it load when the internet is down?!? Doesn’t the PWA source have to be fetched? And if it’s cached, then so can be the static resources.
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#28I'm seeing fires from 1999. https://safe-now.live/c/us/al/
Well technically the agent did “build a website of the latest emergencies in every county”… it just so happens Alabama rarely has forest fires.
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#29Others have mentioned this but looks like fires from close to ~20 years ago are still showing up as "active emergencies"[0]. Shows the Nash Ranch fire as an active emergency but it was declared in 2008.
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#30The 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.