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

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158 points nizarmah | 3 comments | 01 Apr 25 21:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

A couple of months ago, I built this app to help identify people stuck under rubble.

First responders have awesome tools. But in tough situations, even common folks need to help.

After what happened in Myanmar, we need something like this that works properly.

It has only been tested in controlled environments. It can also be improved; I know BLE is not _that_ effective under rubble.

If you have any feedback or can contribute, don't hold back.

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Sakthimm ◴[02 Apr 25 08:12 UTC] No.43554609[source]▶
My friend works at one of the world's largest steel plants and recently he was discussing some ideas with me about solving the problem of people disappearing during inspections and being found dead after a few days. Apparently it is a huge problem there that he wanted to build a startup around the tech.

I am saying this because I think your target market may not be people stuck under rubble, but large scale industries, construction site workers, miners, firefighters, who can install the app beforehand. Cheers.

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1. nizarmah ◴[02 Apr 25 09:37 UTC] No.43555020[source]▶
Thanks a lot for the insight! You definitely highlighted an aspect where this tool could be monetized to fund the development of an open source project like Igatha.

Sadly today, money and connections are needed for r&d and distribution. And having a market that buys a tool like this in certain circumstances can seriously contribute to finding/building publicly available solutions.

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2. financetechbro ◴[02 Apr 25 14:57 UTC] No.43557422[source]▶
I’ve recently had to do a deep dive into construction tech + frontline (deskless) worker tech and there is a lot of potential in this space. Very underserved market. Lmk if you’d like to chat and I can provide some insight on what we’re seeing here in terms off greenfield opportunity
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3. nizarmah ◴[02 Apr 25 15:07 UTC] No.43557527[source]▶
I would definitely like to chat about it. Right now, it's the main picture in mind towards getting some funding to push this project forward. So, I'd love to learn more about it.