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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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cush 4 days ago|
I think people would be more interested in the heavy emergencies, not just the ultra light ones
tinuviel 3 days ago|
You are correct. This has been patched.
imwillofficial 3 days ago||
This is an excellent idea, ill pass it along to friends in emergency management
tinuviel 3 days ago|
Thanks! Could you gather feedback after you do, please?
jonathanstrange 4 days ago||
Looks nice & useful. However, I'd make two versions: The one you have, and additionally a version with Javascript that is a Progressive Web App (PWA). I'm pretty sure some AI could convert the normal page into a PWA for you.

The PWA has the advantage that it will also load when the internet is down and there is no need to save the page manually.

yearolinuxdsktp 3 days ago||
How can it load when the internet is down?!? Doesn’t the PWA source have to be fetched? And if it’s cached, then so can be the static resources.
jonathanstrange 3 days ago||
The complete web page and all resources are saved locally by the service worker. "Clear site data"/clear cookies will delete it. However, clearing the normal browser cache won't. It's overall a little more persistent than the cache for static resources. However, it needs to be installed as an app to really work offline without initial loading. Chrome will prompt you for that on Android, Linux, and Windows. Safari can also do that but makes you jump through hoops. In Firefox, the PWA will work like a page that loads even when the machine is offline.
rjh29 3 days ago||
That sounds unreliable as cache can disappear. A regular mobile app would be safer.
Lord_Zero 3 days ago||
Where does the weather data come from?
tinuviel 3 days ago|
National Weather Service. https://api.weather.gov/alerts/active?point={lat},{lon}

Canada: https://dd.weather.gc.ca/alerts/cap/{province}/atom.xml

whynotmaybe 4 days ago||
Nice touch to have it bilingual in Canada.

Maybe add Spanish?

moralestapia 3 days ago||
>Flood: Higher ground - Turn around, don't drown

It's hard to take a 14 year old serious ...

drob518 3 days ago|
In Texas we lose people every year because they think they can make it across what looks like a small, shallow creek and are swept away by water that is really much deeper. You might think, “Well, those are stupid Texans,” but we even have EMS personnel die that way. A couple years ago we lost a deputy sheriff who was patrolling and trying to monitor water levels. Her car got swept away and then pinned downstream and she drowned. “Turn around, don’t drown,” is a mantra here.
lencastre 4 days ago||
great stuff!!

wish there was sth lk this this side of the pond

mattlondon 3 days ago||
You need an AI angle if you want investment and up-boats.

Suggest a LLM-based chat that consumes feeds and provides a terrification-score rating letting you know how to calibrate your panic-levels, based on real data. Allow for real-time questions on how to purify water, if it's better to carry gold or ammo etc

Good luck. I'll give you 80 mil based on a 40% stake with voting rights.

freak42 4 days ago|
... for North America.
HelloUsername 4 days ago|
> for North America

Correct? Straight from the text: "a text-first emergency info site for USA and Canada"