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by m0nit0r 21 days ago
I really like the idea of trying to solve an existing problem.

You forget your phone but how do you access a webpage in an emergency?

If this works for you and your personal use case, then everything is fine. But I see a lot of hurdles along the way here.

I would rather think of something like: If my phone hasen't been moved over an X amount of time (locations based or accelerometer) the phone drops a note to predfined receipients with "My phone hasen't moved in 60 minutes, maybe I forgot it somewhere". You can send a location point, but that is just where the phone is.

At least it would solve the point where you have to do something manually.

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this seems very streamlined and i don't think it would be that hard to find someone to lend you their phone for like 30 seconds

(or ask them to type a message while they hold their own phone obviously. i once was approached and asked to send an email to a relative because they were locked out and without their phone)