Post #556678

2025-10-15 02:09 UTC

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. https://wellness-p.ing

Replies (15)

@micr0@wetdry.world 2025-10-15 02:49

oh also there is no javascript, cuz screw javascript

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@goat@fuzzies.wtf 2025-10-15 02:14

@micr0@wetdry.world what the fuck micro, you are truly wonderful

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@diazona@techhub.social 2025-10-15 03:42

@micr0@wetdry.world Awesome! I love to see useful yet simple applications of tech like this.

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@suramya@mastodon.social 2025-10-15 04:08

@micr0@wetdry.world This is pretty cool and interesting. Does it take into account people going on vacation or visiting someplace with limited connectivity? 'cause I travel a lot and some of it is to places where I don't have reliable internet and I wouldn't want everyone to panic because I missed a check in due to connectivity issues.

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@mez@mastodon.nz 2025-10-15 04:55

@micr0@wetdry.world Nice! Years ago when we first started getting smart phones with data I wanted to make a sort of “kill switch” app (needed a less morbid name) that you could set up to message contacts if you didn’t regularly check in. At the time I was thinking about solo hikers and travellers.

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@ml@social.mitexleo.one 2025-10-15 05:05

@micr0@wetdry.world Awesome!

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@plasticine_era@mastodon.social 2025-10-15 05:19

@micr0@wetdry.world 👏

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@meltedcheese@c.im 2025-10-15 05:21

@micr0@wetdry.world @alice@lgbtqia.space You are a good person 🫶🏼

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@LexYeen@plush.city 2025-10-15 05:48

@micr0@wetdry.world this was definitely a "people I know might need something like this" boost. excellent work, thank you.

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@kims@mas.to 2025-10-15 05:55

@micr0@wetdry.world I would be happy to kick in some financial resources to keep this running

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@gsprs@mastodon.social 2025-10-15 06:03

@micr0@wetdry.world Very nice! :)

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@coldclimate@hachyderm.io 2025-10-15 06:16

@micr0@wetdry.world this is amazing, thank you

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@fluffy@plush.city 2025-10-15 06:25

@micr0@wetdry.world @dgar@aus.social once upon a time I started building such a thing that would be fed by me using my feed reader but I didn’t have the attention span to see it through. I’m happy to see this existing.

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@datenwolf@chaos.social 2025-10-15 06:26

@micr0@wetdry.world cool project. It should have some way to sign the PONGs, though, otherwise obtaining control over the email address the PINGs go to would negate it. I'm thinking using some PBKDF to derive the key from a passphrase. Signing the PONG verification code should happen client side though, so maybe bite that sour apple and have a tiny bit of JS to talk to the Web Crypto APIs https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Crypto

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@sven222@soc.hardwarepunk.de 2025-10-15 06:37

@micr0@wetdry.world Cool idea! Thank you. I don't need it right now, but like the idea. Maybe later, this can be moved to any foundation, that it is not dependent from one single person. Thanks for your work.

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