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Re:Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1? by cakridge on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:20AM (#17187072)
Distributed accountability buddies. I like it.
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Re:Ask HN: What service are you willing to provide for $1? by odonnellryan on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @02:28PM (#17190215)
Neat idea that has existed in other spaces for a while.

There are groups of sailboats on longer voyages that keep in contact, often back to a base on land, over SSB. If you don't respond to the daily check in it is assumed something is wrong, and everyone is told about it and if anyone is close to your last position you hope they can look for you.

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