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AlivePing Check-in
Launched this week
AlivePing Check-in: A Vancouver-built safety check-in app. Schedule daily check-ins—miss one, and it alerts your trusted contacts, no location tracking needed.
Built for solo living, seniors, and families. Free on iOS, Android coming soon.
Key features:
• Flexible check-ins
• Automated alerts
• Privacy-first design
• 100% Canadian-made
Feedback welcome!
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The no-location-tracking angle is a smart choice. Most safety apps default to GPS tracking which creates a bigger privacy problem than it solves. How are you handling the alert delivery when a check-in is missed? Push notifications, SMS, or both? Curious about the reliability tradeoffs there.
@krisba95
Hey Christian — appreciate the thoughtful question. The “no location tracking” choice was intentional for privacy.
Alert delivery is layered + redundant:
Tier 1: we nudge the user to check in via on-device notifications (local + push).
Tier 2 / Tier 3: we notify the user’s trusted contacts via SMS, and premium users can also enable automated voice calls (available for Tier 2 and Tier 3).
The user also receives an on-device alert; and we send a silent push to wake the app in the background so it can reconcile state and show a visible fallback notification if needed.
Reliability tradeoffs: push is great UX but can be delayed/suppressed by iOS; SMS/voice tends to be more dependable for urgent escalation, but requires stricter compliance (consent/opt‑out/rate limiting).
Curious: for a safety check‑in product, would you expect SMS only, voice+SMS, or push only by default?
Links: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/aliveping-check-in/id6759118161 | https://www.verveai.ca/products/aliveping