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Products that do what Discreet dead man's switch for victims of domestic abuse does

1. 1DI
   Deadman.io - a digital dead man's switch▲76

   2012 · deadman.io

2. 2ET
   End-to-End Encrypted Dead Man's Switch▲17

   2024 · cipherwill.com

3. 3D
   DeadManHandle▲56

   2019 · deadmanhandle.com

4. 4DM
   Dead man's switch without reliance on your infra▲139

   I wrote this Go project to implement a dead man’s switch that didn’t rely on cron jobs, timers, databases, etc on the infra it runs on. Deadcheck integrates to PagerDuty and keeps a long running incident snoozed until expected check-in times where it’ll alert unless a check-in occurs.

   2024 · github.com

5. 5
   Trustbourne▲3

   Dead man's switch your aunt can use

   Jun 2026 · trustbourne.com

6. 6
   A Dead Mens Switch▲2

   Your safety net when you can't call for help

   Feb 2026

7. 7LA
   LastSignal – A self-hosted, zero-knowledge dead man's switch▲5

   Jan 2026 · lastsignal.app

8. 8
   Dead Man's Switch▲3

   Your credit card is the heartbeat—no check-ins to forget

   Jun 2026 · entrust-this.com

9. 9PG
   Passbox – Give access to your data only after you're dead▲110

   2019 · passbox.co

10. 10IU
    I upgrade my digital dead man switch▲5

    Add more features: - File upload - Improve user interface - Account deletion, data export - Improve security

    2024 · bequeath.app

11. 11PA
    Posterity Automations – Get things done from the afterlife▲120

    Hey there HN – I'm Mohamed, CEO here at Posterity. I've seen a lot of threads lately discussing how stuff can be transferred safely to significant others and spouses. A key aspect of that transfer is often timing, and the ability to only disclose information if and when necessary. This is basically what Automations are about; web-hooks triggered in the event something happens, and which can serve as a reliable signal because we verify every death manually. Today, it's available via IFTTT (https://ifttt.com/posterity), and we'll be launching standard HTTP web-hooks very soon as…

    2022 · posterity.life

12. 12CA
    Confide, Anonymously, if Contemplating Suicide or in Pain▲8

    2013 · confideapp.com

13. 13AN
    An NSFW Tumblr Search▲45

    2013 · pornblur.com

14. 14D
    DeathSwitch▲31

    2014 · deathswitch.com

15. 15FO
    Faceless – Open-source version of Secret▲91

    2014 · github.com

16. 16SI
    Share It, Anonymously with Self Destruct Messages▲52

    2021 · pastenow.me

17. 17LP
    LifeEnsured, privately manage your on-line life after you pass.▲36

    2011 · lifeensured.com

18. 18CI
    Cloak – Incognito mode for real life▲19

    2014 · usecloak.com

19. 19HS
    Hacker's Doorbell▲37

    2017 · github.com

20. 20RC
    Remotely Controlled Escape Room▲85

    2020 · thebureauorlando.com

21. 21CS
    CheckUp – Social network suicide prevention in Go▲28

    2014 · checkupapp.org

22. 22RL
    Remod, like chmod but for human beings▲8

    2019 · github.com

23. 23AD
    Anonymous Dead Man's Switch▲5

    Hey HN, I'm John from Alcazar. We just launched a Dead Man’s Switch that uses anonymous accounts instead of email+password. I'm a fan of Mullvad and their approach to accounts, so I copied it. But instead of 16 digits (53 bits of entropy), we generate 12 random words from the Monero wordlist (128 bits) and derive the account identifier+"password" using libsodium. The app is built on top of our existing Flare code and infrastructure. It uses SvelteKit, Shadcn, Tailwind CSS on the frontend, and FastAPI, SQLAlchemy, Celery on the backend. It’s hosted on Hetzner and uses Scaleway for sending…

    Feb 2026 · alcazarsec.com

24. 24SA
    Solving a very old problem — passwords▲45

    2012 · clef.io

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