Probably won't break anything but you're missing and your is outside your :)
Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
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Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#62It appears the site couldn't handle HN traffic or maybe the site owner took it down. Regardless, a project like this needs a lot of thought put into it to be something that people can rely on during times of crisis. If it can't handle a surge in traffic from HN, it won't be able to handle a surge during natural disasters.
It's working for me after 16 minutes of your comment & someone else mentions how it works after 10 minutes of your comment.
Something working after a spike doesn't tell you much anything about how it did during the spike. At best, it's a hint that maybe the server did not physically burn to the ground, but even that is not for certain.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#63I'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!
Lol what the heck? Both UK and France are getting yellow flags because of terrorism. Seems absurd to me but perhaps it's good to get multiple viewpoints.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#64Looks 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.
That sounds unreliable as cache can disappear. A regular mobile app would be safer.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#65Seeing how it hasn't survived the HN hug of death... Not sure how you've built it but consider putting it behind a CDN or something and caching the responses, esp since you're trying to pull live data
It was never down - it was being patched and redeployed based on feedback here.
Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#66The 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.
You might find it easier to dial 112, which is also universal and works outside of the USA.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#67This is an interesting idea, but the very first page I looked at was wrong (current weather in Alameda county shows as 72* - it's almost 30* below that here, and the daily high in the warmest areas is projected to be 65). Next I looked at San Francisco, and oddly it listed a bunch of minor earthquakes in San Ramon - none of which are listed in Alameda county, which is actually next to (and parts of which actually fel…
The weather API call has been fixed.
FEMA reported the earthquakes to be centred in San Ramon and not in Alameda. Will see how this can be handled.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#68From an accessibility perspective, the HTML emoji might be an issue for screen readers.
You can still keep them as `h2#foo::before{content: "emoji ";}` CSS pseudo-elements instead, if memory serves.
(Used "emoji" as a placeholder to ensure it renders in the example.)
Great project; (way) more websites should look like this.
Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You might find it easier to dial 112, which is also universal and works outside of the USA.
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Re: Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
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.