LastShelf - Emergency map for family documents, bills, and contacts
Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts
LastShelf is a digital continuity tool designed to guide families through medical emergencies or loss by centralizing critical information. It automatically discovers important bills and account details from connected financial institutions like Chase and Bank of America, while allowing users to organize medical wishes, life insurance, and trusted contacts. By providing step-by-step instructions for loved ones, LastShelf eliminates the stressful search for scattered documents and passwords during crisis moments. Users can securely share access via 1Password and ensure their family has a clear path forward without the need for a frantic search party.
The hardest moments should not come with a search party.
- edoceo
My experience estate planning is that there are a lot of sensitive details in the documents. The tried a true method is the estate planning binder. Typically there is a worksheet to guide with the collection of information and then trusted parties review and find the missing details and then also work through the complex planning part. LLMs have, this far, not been good at that.
In the last 20 that I've done the biggest hurdle has been sitting down to do the work. A smarter worksheet doesn't solve the human problem of: "I'll get to this later".
Another critical part this doesn't handle is having a trusted party to help during the shit storm. Your estate lawyer and/or executor provide more than organized data.
- ShinyLeftPad
Critical stuff like this is definitely a good idea to delegate to an LLM.
- kaikai
I have a Google doc shared with close friends and family that I keep updated with info in case I’m seriously injured or dead. It doesn’t have passwords or anything harmful to leak, just things like what banks I use, contact info for various friend communities and my job, and an (unofficial) medical directive.
It’s free, took me very little time to set up, and in case of an accident should give people enough leads to make their lives easier.
The need is there, but I would absolutely not trust a subscription startup with “ai” in the url to handle this kind of info.
- lwhsiao
One thing that I couldn't understand from the website: how is this triggered?
This sounds useful, but I also want an automated way to distribute the information when needed. Maybe a dead man's switch of sorts?
For example, suppose I'm a single adult, and I set this all up. Then I go for a hike and disappear forever. How can the trigger of distribution happen?
- sequoia
a hundred dollars a year for this?? What does the service even do with that money? I pay this for 20 years so you can share a google doc upon my demise?
I must be missing something.