Micr0byteOct 15, 2025

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

Show threadLiquorVicar

@micr0 This is fantastic, thanks!

Did you consider making the ping recipient opt-in too? It always makes me slightly nervous when anybody can add anybody else's email to a system without that person being aware/giving approval somehow.

Oct 15, 2025 at 7:52amWeb
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15, 2025
@LiquorVicar I thought about that, but i was worried about cases where you might not want someone like your family to know you set something like this up, as that would stress them out and make them worry.
Show threadMicr0byteOct 15, 2025
@LiquorVicar Open to discussions tho, I think its a good question
Show threadLiquorVicarOct 17, 2025
@micr0 though they’re going to find out the first time they get a ping anyway. I set one up for myself and the ping doesn’t seem to allow for an opt out at all.
Show threadMicr0byteOct 17, 2025
@LiquorVicar what do you mean?
Show threadLiquorVicarOct 19, 2025
@micr0 the first time a ping is sent the recipient is going to get an email so not sure it makes much difference to send them an email when they get added.
Show threadLiquorVicarOct 19, 2025
@micr0 also as a recipient I have no way of saying I don’t want to receive these emails. Not sure that’s very friendly (and possibly not even legal in some jurisdictions)
Show threadLiquorVicarOct 27, 2025
@micr0 Oh, turns out I may have misunderstood this! I thought I added contacts who I wanted to monitor. I hadn't clocked I add the pings for *myself* and then it alerts friends/family if I don't respond. Apologies for the misunderstanding!