Show HN: Seal – Letters and passwords that open for your family after you die

10 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by jpage2

7 Comments

evil-olive

10 hours ago

> If you don't log into the app for months

> After 90 days of countdown, 21 days of warnings, and 14 days of grace, the envelope opens

vs

> it needs that company to still exist and be honest on the day it matters

> there's no company in the middle

which is it?

there's no middleman, but also I need to log in to your app regularly to avoid being declared dead?

skeledrew

7 hours ago

> I need to log in to your app regularly to avoid being declared dead?

Technically, until we get to a point where we still have embedded "life signal" chips, there's no way to automatically detect that someone has died. Other than those who've actually seen a body, the best we have is "not seen - at Y - for a while".

sebmellen

10 hours ago

> What is not done

Rewrite this Readme without Claude?

Also

> There's also no server at all besides a free Cloudflare static site. The encrypted bundles of passwords and photos are in Cloud Kit. Sign-in/identity is a passkey Face ID/Touch ID or a Hardware Key. It's all Crypto Kit, so there's no dependencies required.

To me, this clearly implies that there’s a server involved… Apple’s server. Am I wrong?

itake

10 hours ago

> the keys never leave the phones, and the record of who did what can be checked with a script that has no Seal in it.

What happens if someone loses their phone or buys a new phone? What happens if they forget to tell you that they need a new key?

skeledrew

7 hours ago

> there's no company in the middle

Yet this seems dependent on Apple's ecosystem. That's a company in the middle.

pixel_popping

6 hours ago

Why it's not also available in the web running client-side?

sicutarinaru

9 hours ago

Very coool side project! how are you currently sourcing or curating the ads featured on the wall? is it an automated scraping pipeline or manual submission?