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I have a bunch of software/websites that I run. If I were to get hit by a bus, they would all go offline and there would be many confused users. There is no-one

I have a bunch of software/websites that I run. If I were to get hit by a bus, they would all go offline and there would be many confused users. There is no-one that could pick up where I left off. I have on my todo list to make a dead man's switch. If I don't flip the update after a couple of months, a maintenance message is put up, and if I still don't update it, then an end of life process is kicked off before all my domains expire. Maybe I'll get to it some day.

AvImd 4y ago
Would you like to open source your apps when this happens? Is the absence of updates the only signal you wish to rely on, or should confirmations from other people be involved somehow in the decision?
- david422 4y ago
  The software is mostly just hobby/paid apps that do have a bunch of users. It would be difficult to turn that into open source although I've thought about doing pieces of them before.
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culi 4y ago
Google actually has this built in: https://myaccount.google.com/inactive https://myaccount.google.com/inactive You can set it to share all of your passwords and data to someone after you disappear
- david422 4y ago
  Oh, interesting, didn't know that existed.
pabs3 4y ago
If you ever want those websites uploaded to archive.org, please ask ArchiveTeam to run ArchiveBot over them. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot The software is harder since I guess you aren't offering gratis downloads, but I think Software Heritage will eventually offer a source code escrow service. https://www.softwareheritage.org/ https://www.softwareheritage.org/
- david422 4y ago
  Cool, thanks. Almost all the websites basically come with a dynamic portion - ie backend doing calculations - so would be hard to capture that piece.

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I have a bunch of software/websites that I run. If I were to get hit by a bus, they would all go offline and there would be many confused users. There is no-one

by david422 4y ago

AvImd 4y ago
Would you like to open source your apps when this happens? Is the absence of updates the only signal you wish to rely on, or should confirmations from other people be involved somehow in the decision?
- david422 4y ago
  The software is mostly just hobby/paid apps that do have a bunch of users. It would be difficult to turn that into open source although I've thought about doing pieces of them before.
deleted 4y ago
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culi 4y ago
Google actually has this built in: https://myaccount.google.com/inactive https://myaccount.google.com/inactive You can set it to share all of your passwords and data to someone after you disappear
- david422 4y ago
  Oh, interesting, didn't know that existed.
pabs3 4y ago
If you ever want those websites uploaded to archive.org, please ask ArchiveTeam to run ArchiveBot over them. https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/ArchiveBot The software is harder since I guess you aren't offering gratis downloads, but I think Software Heritage will eventually offer a source code escrow service. https://www.softwareheritage.org/ https://www.softwareheritage.org/
- david422 4y ago
  Cool, thanks. Almost all the websites basically come with a dynamic portion - ie backend doing calculations - so would be hard to capture that piece.