Show HN: Offline SOS signaling+recovery app for disasters/wars

This is great. That said, I think that unless Apple and Google install something like this by default, it won’t get much traction, because you can’t download the app when you really need it, and most people won’t think to download it before then.

I just went through Helene in Asheville last year and it was painfully obvious that our cloud overlords have overlooked the offline disaster use case. Basically, when you’re in a situation where you desperately need technology to help, you’re on your own. I was imagining that tools like this would be great, but without the cloud, I was helpless.

Maybe instead of trying to get users to install this, it could be a proof of concept to show what’s possible, and to say to Apple and Google: install this basic lifesaving tool on every phone by default?

This is something I needed to hear for months. Thank you.

I'll work towards that. I'll need to figure out how to prove the poc is useful.

Apple's "Connect to a Satellite" touches on that, but it's not available for most of the world or on old devices. :|