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chillswitch
A group accountability app. You check in. If you stop, the people you chose are told — automatically, privately, and in the order you set.
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A group accountability app. You check in. If you stop, the people you chose are told — automatically, privately, and in the order you set.
Panic buttons, SOS sliders, share-my-location — all of them need you to reach your phone and do something at the worst possible moment. chillswitch runs the mechanic backwards, and the privacy follows from the architecture rather than from a policy page.
“You never act to raise the alarm. You only ever act to call it off.”
The whole interaction is a circle you press and hold until it buzzes. No menus to learn, no wording to parse, and a target big enough to hit with a glove on or a phone in one hand on a dark street.
A press-and-hold cannot happen in a pocket, which is why there is no cancel-your-own-false-alarm flow to design.
Who is counting on you, who has confirmed, and who has gone quiet — as shapes and colour, readable without reading.
Large targets, plain words, haptic confirmation, and nothing that assumes a steady hand or good light.
chillswitchPress the circle and hold until you feel a tap.
3 people counting on you · all fine
chillswitch alerts people you choose. It is not an emergency service.
You press a button inside a window you set. Miss it, and the people you chose are told. Nothing else happens by itself, and nothing needs you to be capable of acting.
Alerts are encrypted on the device before they leave it. The server tracks deadlines and forwards sealed envelopes. No location tracking, no analytics, no third-party trackers.
A household, a crew or a congregation can see a live count of who has confirmed and who has not. That turns "somebody might be missing" into four names and the time each was last heard from.
chillswitch is not an emergency dispatcher and does not call anyone for you. It publishes what it cannot protect you from, which is a short list worth reading before you rely on it.
chillswitch is in development and this page will say so until it is not. Here is what actually runs today and what is still ahead of it.
Deadlines, grace periods and the hold-to-confirm interaction are built and in daily use.
Sealed alerts, ordered contact escalation and group roll calls all work end to end.
The unglamorous half: what happens with no signal, a dead battery, a changed phone, a wrong timezone.
Real households and real crews, before either app store sees it.
No date promised here, because a date promised here would be made up.
The server-side watchdog that enforces a deadline while the phone is asleep, an architecture where the server routes alerts it cannot read, and the test suite that passed while nothing worked on a real device.
The beta is not public yet. Send a note for a launch update and a summary of what changed between now and then.