phrocker

A few years ago, I started on a project and recently open sourced / sanitized part of it. RDP and memory store is still being sanitized (removing names, etc).

I began using the project because I wanted to learn about AI but also have workers (which I now call agents) use rules to perform actions on my behalf and monitor what I'm doing.

In short, I did this as a learning exercise. I just open sourced it and haven't really passed it along to anyone but am posting here in case anyone wants a view into the history of what people have been doing in AI. I did this with a small group before MCP, before semantic kernel, etc.

I wanted a single plane of glass to access infra, and use agents to do things like automate tasks, etc.

Chose java because that is what the group knew best. I don't expect anyone to want to use it, but I love to tinker and it's something I've enjoyed working on since I don't normally do UI work.

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Skimming through comments before doing some yardwork I saw this and think that's a very prescient comment. It's of childish since I made it for myself, but I think the feedback here is that without any guarantees. I appreciate that type of feedback and it's why I did a show HN.

Hopefully I can resolve that in some way.

Per your feedback ( along with others ). I changed the default to 30 days instead of two weeks and 7 days instead of 3 days. I've also made it configurable in account settings.

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.

That's a really good point.

Travel. I don't consistently check my E-mail while traveling. Some paid products allowed changing intervals, but that wouldn't solve that issue.

I don't have a good answer, but will consider some ideas. Perhaps allowing staged responses via different mediums is a good alternative. For me E-mail works but as I've offered this others may have different opinions.

Really appreciate the insight.

yeah and there were a few others but I wanted to completely open source this ( and offer for free ) and finish integrating some IFTT capabilities I've built for my phone that perform actions and send messages in certain cases.

But yeah..by no means novel. The Show HN part of it was to get some solid feedback before open sourcing it.

Sorry I updated my comment above and deleted my cache to show the about icon. It is a kill switch, just another name. I liked the name because I plan to update it to eventually have it trigger on certain events, like an E-mail or phone app event. Some apps already do this portion of it, but I honestly never trusted them, hence why my goal is to make the code eventually all ALv2

Greaaaat...The icon addition for mobile wasn't cached. Thanks for letting me know. It's a kill switch that I used to contact people if I don't get around to clicking a link in an E-mail.

The mobile version really sucks, so I will have to fix. that. I write C by day. I promise I do that better.

I imagine most will not find this useful, but I've always wanted a service like this. I found some similar products and even tried them out but nothing fit what I needed. All I wanted was a kill switch. I've seen mobile apps, but I wanted something via E-mail. If you don't respond within a certain number of days, we'll send an E-mail to your emergency contacts.

I used the design cues from different open source and paid products and made my own. I'll open source it pretty soon, giving attribution to those which helped guide my design.

There are similar paid products but few allowed me to offer it as a service and few if any were free. I even bought one but it didn't quite offer what I needed, so I'm offering this for free to anyone who needs a similar service.

As three other products used AdminLTE I used the same to guide the design. It was easy and quick. Let me know if you find any issues as you try it. Thanks!