Show HN: DeathSwitch

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Post by skyjacker » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 12:30 AM UTC

Show HN: DeathSwitch
deathswitch.com

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#2

Post by vsviridov » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:11 AM UTC

How do I ensure that they'll remain when I expire?

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Post by hadoukenio » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:19 AM UTC

Feedback:

> from your after you’re gone

from you after you're gone

Create a favicon. It's still showing the BlueHost icon.

Re: Show HN: DeathSwitch

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Post by rpedela » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:21 AM UTC

Interesting idea. I think my father might be interested. Every time he flies on a plane (not often), he lets me know where various financial information is and the passwords to get at it.

The pricing seems really strange to me. Wouldn't only messages be sent when someone is dead or severly disabled? A model similar to life insurance makes more sense to me where the customer pays a small amount of money on a yearly basis. And there wouldn't be a free tier except for maybe a trial.

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Post by jwally » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:27 AM UTC

Feedback: >you canlog back in to the site

you can log back into the site

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Post by Mithaldu » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:32 AM UTC

The devices animation forces a scroll-up on Opera 12.

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Post by bprater » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:37 AM UTC

How long does the system send out: "Are you alive?" messages before it sends out the logged message? What if a family needs more immediate access to the data?

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Post by caio1982 » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:40 AM UTC

rpedela wrote: post #4

Interesting idea. I think my father might be interested. Every time he flies on a plane (not often), he lets me know where various financial information is and the passwords to get at it. The pricing seems really strange to me. Wouldn't only messages be sent when someone is dead or severly disabled? A model similar to life insurance makes more sense to me where the customer pays a small amount of money on a yearly ba…

So your father and also I would be interested. But I really doubt a service like that would last given the current startups scene we have now. It must be rock solid. Fully dependable. It's life-and-death business here. I'd pay a good amount for this kind of solution.

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Post by cdibona » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:49 AM UTC

Hey, just as a funny side note, I implemented this on this very domain back in the early 2000s. Gald to see someone else is using the domain this way :-)

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Post by thegenius » Mon, Oct 20, 2014, 1:53 AM UTC

while the idea has merits, i would not trust you with my most sensitive data (especially if it is reversibly encrypted or plaintext), i would feel like i was paying for an added secuirty risk, of which there are too many already. also it doesnt seem like there are assurances against you abusing my data like there would be if you were a lawyer i had entrusted to execute my will. there's no personal relationship there, so i don't feel comfortable.