Micr0byteOct 15

I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.

You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.

Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.

I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).

Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.

https://wellness-p.ing

Wellness Ping

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@micr0 Nice! Years ago when we first started getting smart phones with data I wanted to make a sort of “kill switch” app (needed a less morbid name) that you could set up to message contacts if you didn’t regularly check in. At the time I was thinking about solo hikers and travellers.
Oct 15 at 4:55amWeb
Show threadcwicseolforOct 15
@mez @micr0 Always made me think of tonic signaling in nerves - basically the hum of background is noise, but silence is the signal.