Thanks Kevin, it's fixed at weekly in V1 so bills don't lapse. For a new version I'm looking at making weekly configurable to a longer timeframe from community feedback.

You're welcome. I'm pitching to an organisation with a heap of members next year. The bus factor was what came up when I ran some scenarios through my AI as to why they might not shop with an independent. :)) Spot on.

Add your 2IC as an Admin on Apple (you need a organisation account) and with Google Play console invite them. You can keep a master document, put the 2FA recovery steps in it, and keep that master password separate from the document. Happy to work through any issues with you mate. :))

Personally I'm handling this by paying my monthly hosting bill two months in advance. That gives my 2IC plenty of time to move the sites or provide access to my clients' new provider. Also the 2IC can pay the hosting bill. The reason the switch checks weekly is also to stay in sync with monthly bills paid. Nice insights and thoughtful comments. Thanks, calyhre.

Another option for anyone reading this thread is to put the switch on a different host to your main VPS or servers. Cheap hosting paid yearly in advance is one idea under a different billing account or another provider. My switch is hosted in Singapore but the majority of my sites are Australian. So if the Aus servers go down upstream it's less likely the switch will be affected. :)

I decided not to monetize or host it for sale that way because I didn't want to deal with the warranty side of things through an insurance provider. The app is free to take and use or do with as you wish. Thinking of adding a longer timeframe to a new version as others have asked too.

<3 thanks squinx :))

I'm glad this has inspired your ideas :)) the project is free to fork, run it through your AI or it's there to inspire your own switch.

The Switch works by pressing a button on a page. The Switch emails the link, so pressing the button confirms everything is okay! An automatic keep alive would keep pinging if you're dead. I agree it's a narrow market. I've put my 2IC in place and I'm meeting with my lawyer soon to add her. This is about having external relationships for sure and I very much appreciate that comment. The cost to me is a small Linode (nanode) and it hooks into SMTP2go which I already pay for ;)

> An automatic keep alive would keep pinging if you're dead

Look it this way: an automated request, a email click, it's all just signal collection. If something keeps making an automatic requests beyond it's intended need, then it's just bad signal collection.

I'm pretty sure there are better ways, especially the intended sample rate is 1/week which fairly high fault-tolerant for the use case. For example, you can send keepalives only when user's device is unlocked and in use, etc.

But of course that require client-side development, not sure if you're willing to get your hand dirty on that.

Not at this stage. Part of my campaign is to inspire others to create a solution. It came up in my business and this is how I'm dealing with it. I've always been web based. There's actually an app you can download for your phone at deadmanswitch.com If people create their own switches in different flavours I consider this thread to be successful.

Point noted, thanks.

I'll check that out, thanks. I recall turning them off so will look into it :))