It's sad that a service like this exists. Taking a walk isn't a horribly dangerous activity and it's sad that our society has conditioned us to believe it might be.<p>Live a little.<p>EDIT: Sorry for the overly negative comment. I'd never personally want this, but Afforess makes a great comment about alternative demographics.
I can see this going really wrong -- I tend to forget things. Also, the value prop needs a bit of work. Show me the app or something. I want to feel like I trust this app.<p>Also, is this app profiting off of fear mongering? It's an interesting sector of technology that has sold to millions of people around the world. [See: Antivirus, Home Security Sytems, Insurance, etc]
I love this idea! I wanted something like this for kiteboarding, actually, which an interesting coincidence given the name.<p>Some UX feedback: You should warn the user in advance that you are going to send an SMS to their phone number to confirm the number. After getting the first SMS to confirm my account, I started to add my emergency contact. I stopped, though, because I was worried that you might send an SMS to them asking to confirm their number, status as emergency contact, etc. The UI doesn't make it clear what will happen when I add them as a contact.
While the concept of this app is noble, why would anyone give up there phone number, full name and location to a site that says absolutely nothing about what they will do with that data.<p>There is a privacy policy and terms of use on the site, but those only cover use of the website itself and mostly just protect the site creator.<p>There is a significant revenue opportunity to gather this information and sell it and if that is the intent it should be clearly stated. If that isn't the intent, then they are potentially losing users by not yelling that from the rooftops.
Hi everyone! I made this app, and I just added an FAQ with some of your questions: <a href="https://www.kitestring.io/faq" rel="nofollow">https://www.kitestring.io/faq</a>
Or .. you could use a Fall Detector app:<p><a href="https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fall%20detector&c=apps" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/search?q=fall%20detector&c=app...</a><p>There are plenty of them. They watch your activity, if you're moving around, and if the phone detects you have fallen over, it sends alerts to your configured SMS/Twitter contact.
So what is this? A text only service? A web app? Native phone app?<p>I am on a tablet, so maybe the site isn't showing me all there is to see but I can't figure out what this this is without signing up. All there is to read is three sentences in the hero.
Beautiful product, both aesthetically and conceptually. Very simple and honest, very few apps start like that, but I think the ones who do, legitimately deserve success.<p>Keep up with the great work!
Strange coincidence! A friend on fb posted a message tonight along the lines of "going to a new friend's house, if I don't check in by midnight, call the police". I've definitely let a friend know when making a craigslist or airbnb transaction. I probably would rather just let a friend know where I was going but it's nice there's an alternative and I'm sure this service can be run rather cheaply.
There is a Toronto startup that plays in this space for the enterprise - <a href="http://www.guardly.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.guardly.com</a>
Livesafe[1], although not as straightforward or elegant, is a general life safety app that already does this and is already somewhat well-established. (This counts as a plug, I guess, since I know people who work on that app)<p>[1] <a href="http://www.livesafemobile.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.livesafemobile.com/</a>
It's a shame to see so many negative comments. MIT compsci student has good idea to help people, has a clean and simple UI/UX that I was able to test very quickly, open-sources the code. Even if you have no need for it, I have respect for attempts like these.
If you're on a large display the Get Started button seems like it's broken if you don't notice the color change down below. I noticed after I clicked it a few times.<p>Interesting idea!