I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
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I made a thing called Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice.
You get regular check-ins via email. If you don't respond, your emergency contacts get notified.
Built it for anyone who might go missing and needs someone to notice: activists, journalists, researchers, solo folks.
I paid for premium hosting (high-reliability VPS in Sweden) and a quality email provider because uptime actually matters for something like this. Also paying extra for minimal data retention (7 days email activity, working toward zero content storage).
Free forever (as long as I'm alive) and open source.
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For people that the ICE gestapo plan on "disappearing" this is an excellent precaution.
Thank you for developing it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/10/14/petros-krommidas-missing-long-beach-election/
A candidate disappeared months ago after an ocean swim. Can he still win?
A local candidate in the suburbs of New York City will remain on the November ballot, despite vanishing months ago after a night swim in the Atlantic Ocean.
AP News (apnews.com)
Long Island Republicans criticized for filing lawsuit to keep missing Democratic candidate's name on ballot
Democrats were trying to get another candidate on the ballot instead, but Republicans filed a lawsuit against the change.
(www.cbsnews.com)
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