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There was a website that did exactly from like 2003-2010. They shut down unfortunately. I'd like to see a business model that can support this.

I think one day you're gonna get tired of paying the bills or maintaining it.

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There needs to be a service that monitors these sites and then emails their users if they go down for more than a month, to warn them.

Ha...when I told my wife what I was doing one evening she said, "that's a really stupid idea."

I'll show her that this comment to prove I didn't invent the idea ( which I said I hadn't ) and suddenly it'll become brilliant.

But in all seriousness: the non 'show HN' part of this is that my hope of sticking this up on my github will be that people could maintain it or continue with it if I were to 'perish or give up', which I can guarantee 100 % that one of those will happen. My day job and side gigs are all completely open source which is important to me.

I’m not sure how open source would solve the continuity problem. If people sign up for the service on your site, and then your site goes down before they need the notifications to fire, the fact that other people have the source code doesn’t really seem to help?

Instead of clicking some link, it would be better to click a payment link :-) So when the receiver stops paying, the contacts should be informed.

I think the business model is to charge a decent amount, think $1000(ish), up front.

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