Death Plan Switch is a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo developers
Original title: Show HN: Death Plan Switch, a self-hosted dead man's switch for solo devs
The free MIT-licensed PHP app emails weekly, then alerts next of kin and other contacts if check-ins stop.
An independent developer in New South Wales released Death Plan Switch, a small self-hosted tool that notices when a solo operator stops responding. After missed weekly check-ins it asks next of kin before messaging other contacts, and a later check-in can mark a firing as a false alarm. It needs PHP 8.1 or newer, SMTP, cron and separate hosting, and stores no documents or passwords.
- Contacts are told at most 13 days after the last check-in.
- Opening an email link does not count as a check-in.
- The author has run it for one week with confirmed contacts.
- Apache works as shipped; nginx needs extra configuration.
From the original article
3 min read at deathplanswitch.com
A small, self-hosted dead man's switch for independent web developers. It emails you once a week. If you stop answering, it asks your next of kin, then tells the people who need to act.
By romeo19361 · deathplanswitch.com
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