Just out of curiosity, do you relate to this problem and if so, how do you handle the transfer of important information to your loved ones in case something were to happen unexpectedly?

TL;DR: I told this idea to my college freshman son who built A Final Message to deliver private letters and instructions only if user goes silent. It’s privacy-first (client-side encryption), fail-safe (cooldowns + guardian approvals), and exportable (no vendor lock-in).

Why Password spreadsheets and “email after I die” scripts are brittle and risky. I wanted something my family could trust without trusting me (or a single server) to be online forever.

Vibe coded with tech stack: Git > Vercel integrating Twilio, Sendgrid, Stripe and features like split-key release by user's option, cron driven automated check-in alerts.

Would love feedback on current pricing, vulnerabilities to worry about and target markets for kid to focus on.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283022

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I've personally tried many bootstrapped companies with little success but a couple that did get escape velocity (one hit 9 figure revenues by year 8), the common denominator was a well-thought out, embedded customer acquisition tightly integrated into the core product. Very hard to couple given how excited we tend to get building a solution to a problem we see. But super critical, really good insight here.