Alive
Silent safety check-ins—making solo living feel seen
119 followers
Silent safety check-ins—making solo living feel seen
119 followers
Alive is a lightweight safety status tool for people living alone. Unlike location/social tracking, it’s almost invisible: set a check-in timer and tap once daily; if time runs out or check-ins are missed, it auto emails tiered alerts to your emergency contacts. It’s instant to start (no sign-up), no location, minimal permissions, no irrelevant data. Contacts and logs are encrypted. Customize period, grace, reminder cadence, and quiet hours. Silent when you’re fine, loud when you’re not.
HabitDone
Minara
Congrats on the launch!
Solo living often comes with a subtle anxiety about safety that tools rarely address without being intrusive.
From a product design perspective, I’m curious how you calibrate check-in frequency and user burden — especially balancing reassurance vs noise. Do users get to tune those thresholds, or does the system adapt intelligently based on behavior patterns over time? Like for example if my phone died or I lose my phone, or I just decide that I want some detoxic days from scrolling?
Omg this app is brilliant ahahahah
How are you handling the tiered alerts and encryption of contacts/logs—client-side only, or with a secure server?
Safety for people living alone is such an important topic that doesn't get enough attention. The check-in system sounds reassuring. Does it allow you to designate emergency contacts who get notified automatically?
Great idea, this. I've been thinking about building something like this for a while. What are the edge cases here, I wonder? The false positive situations where a one-click check-in can be innocently missed? For instance, elderly relative has memory problems (quite common) and left phone on silent, or accidentally switched it into that mode.
I'm not even elderly - I've the memory of a goldfish and I accidentally leave phone on silent all the time. Just ask my friends and relatives how difficult it is to get hold of me on the phone.
I wonder, can you override the phone's setting, just for your alert?
Totally into this—simple and privacy-first. Would love a quick “test alert” + “got it” confirmation from contacts so you can make sure everything works (and won’t end up in spam) before you ever need it.
Congrats on the launch — love how lightweight and privacy-respecting this is for solo living safety, feels like the right balance of “always there, never intrusive.