Show HN: BuddyGuard Mobile Personal Security

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2 points·pxlpshr··2 comments

I've been a member here for awhile. I guess you can't use "Tell HN:" tags anymore. Here's our story of a product built by a 3 man team:

Our previous product, Plerts, was released almost a year ago. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/13/plerts-blends-check-ins-wit...

Plerts was over-designed, it did a few things but not a few things really well. BuddyGuard is the new product we developed after our company was acquired by MPOWER Labs, a financial services company that developers products for underserved and underbanked in countries like Mexico, Kosovo, Romania, etc. They have an interest in making financial transactions more secure.

BuddyGuard is free to use with friends and family. As a premium upgrade, your emergency alerts can be routed to a 24/7 ER response centre that can coordinate search & rescue efforts virtually anywhere in the world -- private helicopters/jets/boats, embassies relations, etc. In the past 12 months they've rescued over 450 people.

In short, it's like 'Global OnStar' but for your mobile phone. Love to hear HN feedback or suggestions.

Am I right in thinking that a use case for this could be: I'm about to leave a friend's house to walk back to my place, so I launch the app and it tracks me until I get home, so my friends can know I've made it back safely or, if anything happens they have a log of my activity?

Sounds like an innovative idea!

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