Tore my achilles recently, had surgery (4th major), which reminded me of the love letters I wrote years ago before my first to be delivered in case I didn't wake up. Wondered, do others think about such morbid things and the responsibility in my case to also convey various contacts and information about our affairs my spouse isn't fully on top of?
TL;DR: I told this idea to my college freshman son who built A Final Message to deliver private letters and instructions only if user goes silent. It’s privacy-first (client-side encryption), fail-safe (cooldowns + guardian approvals), and exportable (no vendor lock-in).
Why
Password spreadsheets and “email after I die” scripts are brittle and risky. I wanted something my family could trust without trusting me (or a single server) to be online forever.
Vibe coded with tech stack: Git > Vercel integrating Twilio, Sendgrid, Stripe and features like split-key release by user's option, cron driven automated check-in alerts.
Would love feedback on current pricing, vulnerabilities to worry about and target markets for kid to focus on.
cleartext412•4mo ago
With delicate task like this, if I were to trust a technical solution I would rather have it open source, reviewed by myself, hosted on my terms and with appropriate degree of redundancy.
If I were to trust a person or organization, I would prefer them not talk about technical details at all, and instead ask me as many ways to get in contact as possible (phone number, facebook profile, maybe even physical address), not just single email, and promise to do everything reasonable possible to get in contact within defined term if delivering email fails. And I would also prefer them to be in this business for a few decades at least.
rallyvite•4mo ago
Thank you for the input, definitely a delicate matter and so we actually advise against storing sensitive information (like passwords) and use dual authentication for everything (email and text). Open source is a very interesting take especially if he targets a more tech driven community.
Just out of curiosity, do you relate to this problem and if so, how do you handle the transfer of important information to your loved ones in case something were to happen unexpectedly?
chasing0entropy•4mo ago
Once in a week or so I will click on a link of a unique(to me) online business model.
This is that one. Imagine using this to break up with someone :D
Bender•4mo ago
My method is to have cron jobs on systems both in my name and not in my name that others can not control. I stop logging in, emails go out, some things decrypt, some files transfer, some controls are activated and so on. Emails have disclaimers that I may have forgotten to update a system and what process to validate I am ok. I would imagine many here could do the same.
rallyvite•4mo ago
TL;DR: I told this idea to my college freshman son who built A Final Message to deliver private letters and instructions only if user goes silent. It’s privacy-first (client-side encryption), fail-safe (cooldowns + guardian approvals), and exportable (no vendor lock-in).
Why Password spreadsheets and “email after I die” scripts are brittle and risky. I wanted something my family could trust without trusting me (or a single server) to be online forever.
Vibe coded with tech stack: Git > Vercel integrating Twilio, Sendgrid, Stripe and features like split-key release by user's option, cron driven automated check-in alerts.
Would love feedback on current pricing, vulnerabilities to worry about and target markets for kid to focus on.
cleartext412•4mo ago
If I were to trust a person or organization, I would prefer them not talk about technical details at all, and instead ask me as many ways to get in contact as possible (phone number, facebook profile, maybe even physical address), not just single email, and promise to do everything reasonable possible to get in contact within defined term if delivering email fails. And I would also prefer them to be in this business for a few decades at least.
rallyvite•4mo ago
Just out of curiosity, do you relate to this problem and if so, how do you handle the transfer of important information to your loved ones in case something were to happen unexpectedly?