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Hm please don't trust a service such as this over a decent legal firm, you can find always a reliable solicitor / legal support in your neighborhood.

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One problem with "reliable solicitors" is that it's entirely possible for their firm to go out of business too, with few, if any, repercussions for the proprietors.

I'd prefer to trust something like a self-hosted Vaultwarden instance [1] with emergency access [2]. Maybe with redundancy even.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

[2] https://bitwarden.com/help/emergency-access/

true but I trust a well reviewed estate lawyer over any SaaS product

I think that is a solved problem. The legal profession is so old, and they are part of a system, that I would bet that most reliable solicitors have a continuity plan for their clients’ wills and other long terms legal paperwork.

Solicitors in a civilised country are highly regulated and if they were to cease trading the local regulator will appoint a firm to handle their clients needs

biggest risk with a technology based solution for this is the person stops paying their hosting bill. I'd like to see this app open source the billing, so in case the person who runs the site disappears, the community can continue playing

We are working with our hosting provider in order to inform the users in case the bad happens on our side and in order to provide 1 more year where the website and the emergency notes can still be accessible (but no emergency notes can be generated).

Hm no thanks. I trust these guys far more than I do "my neighborhood solicitor/legal support" and I don't even know who runs the site.

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