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Seems like it would require constant upkeep in multiple countries?

• IIAOPSW 7y ago
  I envision some sort of news skimming bot that just looks for key words in the article feed from a handful of major sources.
  • imhoguy 7y ago
    And who would pay for that... for life?
    • IIAOPSW 7y ago
      Plenty of people. Skimming the news for "[x] people dead" and "[city name]" is not computationally expensive and the script only needs to run maybe twice a day. The infrastructure costs associated with running the service should be pocket change. All the users in the same city would be triggered by the same event. The service per user actually gets cheaper with the number of users. In fact nothing in the dead man switch is computationally expensive and all of it is event driven. Its basically just a database of (email, location, last_checked_in). Thousands of users would take up mere kilobytes of storage. You could run the entire thing severless and it would take years before it would even be worth billing you. I would totally pay $1 a year for this. Maybe more but probably not much more. With just a few hundred users, you'd be well into respectable side project money.