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https://izuded.com https://izuded.com (i.e., "iz u ded?") I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could
by mk4p 10y ago
https://izuded.com https://izuded.com
(i.e., "iz u ded?")
I made this because I adopted a puppy and realized that, if I got hit by a bus on a Friday, he could be stuck in his crate for days before anyone realized. Morbid, but useful.
It texts you every X days and asks, "u ded?" -- if you don't click "naw" before X days pass, it'll notify your contacts.
It's a portfolio project to show what I've learned in the realm of "serverless" architecture. Details about its construction here: https://medium.com/@marclar/iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9 https://medium.com/@marclar/iz-u-ded-713594fd80e9
- wubbfindel 10y ago"im ded :( plz walk doggie" Man, that's not how I would want to find out that a friend or family member has passed away. :-|
- anotheryou 10y agowell but it's funny enough not to cause much harm on a false alarm, while still triggering research in to the doggie/death situation :)
- mk4p 10y agoAlso, the message is customizable. I'm kind of surprised at how many commenters didn't assume it would be, so I'll need to think about how to change the presentation.
- cphoover 10y agoright? How horrible...
- mk4p 10y agoYou can set the message to whatever you want; the message in the screenshots is just in keeping with the overall tone of the site.
- sean2 10y agoI don't know, getting that as a final joke from the right friend or younger family member might be my favorite way to be informed, and then I'd go walk their dog. I'd still be sad, of course, but there's really no good way to be informed of this. In all likely hood, I'd already be informed, and then I'd get this half-assed reminder and be all "oh my god, it's so like them!" Actually when considering likelihood, they're probably on vacation and forgot to pause the program. A better message might be along the lines of: "Hi this is Sean's personal assistant script: I can't confirm that his puppy has been getting walked would you check into that for me? Spare key is..."
- eriknstr 10y agoI agree in part, but I think that if you are setting up such a message, it's important that you inform your friends and family of the message while you are still alive, and probably you should also tell them that the message might end up getting sent while you are still alive because you forgot or for some other reason didn't get around to confirming that you are alive still in time.
- mk4p 10y agoRight -- the message is customizable, and after you save your contacts, it prompts you with a message you can text them to let them know about the service.
- mk4p 10y agoYeah, you customize your own message -- write whatever you'd want to send, e.g. the location of a spare key.
- mk4p 10y agoOh, it's all customizable. You write whatever you want, like "I haven't checked in in a day -- please make sure I'm alright."
- zoidb 10y agoreally like the clean design of the front-end, did you use anything special to create it?
- soupshield 10y agoHave you ever had any false alarms with this?
- mk4p 10y agoI have not!
- davemackintosh 10y agoThis is fantastic, made me laugh. Brilliant idea
- mk4p 10y agoHaha -- thanks, Dave -- glad you like it :)
- goblin89 10y agoKudos for friendly easy-going presentation and sleek implementation, enjoyed checking it out. Would’ve signed up were I in the market!
- alekratz 10y ago> "were I in the market" > the market of dying is there something about your mortality that you'd like to tell us?
- goblin89 10y agoI don’t have a dog.
- dfex 10y agoYour post just made my morning :)
- DCRichards 10y agoI genuinely laughed out loud at this in my office, thanks for making my day of copy changes better @goblin89
- mk4p 10y agoThanks! Much appreciated :)
- blauditore 10y agoGoogle has a similar feature to give trusted people access to your data if you've been inactive for a given amount of time (so probably dead): https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive https://www.google.com/settings/account/inactive
- scoot 10y agoThat's a fantastic hidden feature - thanks for pointing it out.
- komali2 10y agoWow, going through that was a bit emotional. You've got to set up an email that gets sent to your contacts when you've been inactive for >3months. That'll only happen if I'm dead or imprisoned so, yuck. Did not enjoy typing that one up.
- moonka 10y agoYea, I got to that step and closed out. I need to set aside some time this weekend and think about what to write.
- pimlottc 10y agoWow, what a frighteningly effective deadman switch. Normally I'd be worried about forgetting to reset it but in this case it's hard /not/ to use a Google product in a normal day.
- cosmolev 10y agoIs it safe to put my 1Password's master-password into the message that is sent in case I'm dead?
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- 2color 10y ago"The workaround is to POST directly from the browser to an S3 bucket and then handle that AWS event with a Lambda. " Great article and nice project. Do you upload an "event" to a queue type folder on S3? what triggers the Lambda function after the file upload?
- jdale27 10y agoS3 has built-in functionality to trigger a Lambda function when certain events occur (e.g., object creation). For example, see http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example.html http://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-s3-example.....
- mk4p 10y agoThanks so much :) As @jdale27 said, there's built-in functionality with AWS that lets you subscribe to various events, e.g. S3 uploads, CloudWatch logs, etc.
- pj_mukh 10y agoCan you make a version of this that just texts my mom that "I'm okay". That'd be perfect. P.S: Yes I'm thirty. Y'all don't know Indian moms.
- viraptor 10y agoI'm over thirty. This isn't Indian specific...
- flukus 10y agoAlso over 30, starting to want them to send me messages that they're ok.
- martin-adams 10y agoYou could write a cron job that uses Twilio. I like to optimise for success.
- mfukar 10y ago"- Text me when you arrive" 5 minutes later.. "- I arrived. No assassins encountered."
- Ntrails 10y agoBut mum, look, if anything has happened you'll get a bloody phone call. With this system my not texting just primes you to worry more, despite the far higher likelihood that I forgot than that I'm dead. Literally the best result is that you start worrying I'm not ok a few hours before finding out for certain that I'm not. So let's assume success, and agree that in case of failure you're going to have a very bad day anyway and this doesn't really help mitigate anything at all. (this does not work)
- mfukar 10y agoIt never works.
- googlya 10y agofirst world problems :)
- milesokeefe 10y agoAfter the final one hour warning, it should call you and if you pick up, the alarm cancels. So a final step that's not passive and only requires picking up the phone instead of opening the texting app and clicking a link. Also helps if you're somewhere where you have SMS/calling but no data. Although in that case, being able to reply "I no ded" would be more reliable.
- rhizome 10y agoIn which case your murderer answers the call.
- r00fus 10y agoWould it be much harder to process a tone-based password prompt? So you receive a call and it just beeps on says "enter passcode" and you enter the code. Though to be honest it's highly unlikely that will the hypothetical murderer would pick up a phone call unless they were expecting it...
- mk4p 10y agoInteresting idea -- thanks for the suggestion
- _ao789 10y agoIs it weird that I'm quite interested to final out how many "messages to contacts" have been sent out so far? :P
- aalraai 10y agoNice! But what if I lose my mobile phone or change my number? :D
- mk4p 10y agoWellll, you could set it to check every 1-30 days, so maybe set it to check less frequently? Wouldn't solve the changing-your-number thing, but I'm guessing you don't do that too often.
- wglb 10y agoYou should do a Show HN for this.
- mk4p 10y agoThanks! I'll try to get something together next week.
- sweetjesus 10y agonext week: looks like mk4p hasn't showed up... time for somebody to break in and feed his puppy?
- YooLi 10y agoAre the SMS being sent from Lambda or another service like Twilio?
- mk4p 10y agoThere's a scheduled Lambda that sends messages via Twilio.
- bryanrasmussen 10y agoIf I iz ded and I selected 17 days, my dog is ded to.