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Ask HN: Emergency preparedness kit subscription service

7 pointsby edgefield0over 5 years ago
Building and maintaining a proper emergency preparedness kit is difficult. First, you need to know what items, food, and water to purchase based on your household. Second, everything expires at different times requiring you to continually replace certain items and food. Third, if you look to purchase everything at once, up front, you&#x27;ll face sticker shock.<p>How about an emergency preparedness subscription service that allows you to pick a level of preparedness, input your household composition, and then allows you to build and maintain an emergency kit over time?<p>I&#x27;d appreciate any feedback on this idea. Thank you!

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JoelMcCrackenover 5 years ago
I&#x27;d pay for it, if it was reasonably priced. I built a pair of these, one for myself, and one for my wife, and it was really a bit of a pain. I still don&#x27;t really feel happy about the kits (do i have exaclty waht I want? Are the first aid kits good enough? etc)<p>One thing that would be nice is to have a whole suite of code around it. Some ideas:<p>- email me when 6 mos, 3 mos etc before my food&#x2F;meds expire<p>- make products, etc customizable. For example, allow me to pick if I want a filter straw, or a water boiling kit, etc.<p>- group needs and resources by different types of situations. So I know that I am covered in a hurricane, but maybe not in an earthquake. I dunno.<p>Oh, and you can do a preparedness blog as marketing
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