Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)

Posted by tinuviel 4 days ago

Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)(safe-now.live)

After reading "During Helene, I Just Wanted a Plain Text Website" on Sparkbox (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494734) , I built safe-now.live – a text-first emergency info site for USA and Canada. No JavaScript, no images, under 10KB. Pulls live FEMA disasters, NWS alerts, weather, and local resources. This is my first live website ever so looking for critical feedback on the website. Please feel free to look around.

https://safe-now.live

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Neywiny 3 days ago|

My gut feeling is that I'd want it to use my IP address to get as much relevant data as possible. I don't want to click into my state, then city/county. As others pointed out the font is a bit small so clicking on states is pretty tricky.

Jotalea 3 days ago||

I really appreciate lightweight software, including websites. I don't need them, but I really, really like them. they have a certain feeling that I can't describe, but it's great.

mghackerlady 3 days ago||

This is really useful! I'm planning on making a list of websites that work well with Lynx and other text based browser, specifically because people should be able to access important information regardless of how powerful their computer is

rumatoest 4 days ago||

It must be able to cache it's all content in browser.

I guess to do it it properly you need to make it PWA.

Croak 3 days ago||

You can also just use proper HTTP cache headers. ETag and a very long Expires header.

tinuviel 3 days ago||

Idea is to keep it light and accessible. PWA would be data heavy. The use case is in the article linked in the post description.

lasgawe 2 days ago||

One of the most unique ideas I've seen. Good to see this is just a 4.4 KB HTML page and does exactly what it says.

goda90 3 days ago||

It would be good for the specific state/province/city pages to include the same info from the ancestor pages so you only have to link to and load one page for your area.

cachvico 3 days ago||

Floods - remove "Don't drown" and add "Stay out of the attic". Plenty have died trying to seek shelter in an attic.

qingcharles 3 days ago||

Probably won't break anything but you're missing <head></head> and your <footer> is outside your </body> :)

tinuviel 3 days ago|

Thanks for noticing. This has been fixed.

davedx 3 days ago||

The UK emergency phone number is 999, not 112.

Ugh. Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!

tinuviel 3 days ago||

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/999-and-112-the-uks-national-eme...

112 is also a national emergency number.

deceptionatd 3 days ago||

112 and 911 (US) work on almost every mobile phone anywhere in the world. It's part of the GSM/UMTS standard. 999 is supported with either no SIM card or a UK SIM card. See §7.1 here: https://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/documents/LIAISON/file562.pdf

They also don't require a phone to be activated in most countries. I believe there are some exceptions in EU countries, but in the US it just needs to have a working antenna and be in range of a tower.

nosrepa 3 days ago|

Seems to be bugged in places? I'm seeing fire alerts for new Hampshire when I pull up Minnesota.

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