Safe-now.live
Emergency info site
A very light website that gathers emergency information in one place, and people like that it is fast and loads under heavy traffic. Critics say some of its data is wrong or out of date and the text is too small.
A very light website that gathers emergency information in one place, and people like that it is fast and loads under heavy traffic. Critics say some of its data is wrong or out of date and the text is too small.
28 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 14
- approval share
- 50%
Recommended in 1 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 1 recommender for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 1 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Very lightweight, loads fast
“The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” Handles traffic spikes well
“it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” Useful emergency info for people
“This is an excellent idea, ill pass it along to friends in emergency management”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “great stuff!! wish there was sth lk this this side of the pond”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” Simple and does what it says
“does exactly what it says”
Comment from 4 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Works for me 10 minutes after your post.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Text too small, especially on mobile
“Even on mobile the text is too small for me. Nice though, I like it.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “the linked site feels too small for my eyes on a 21.5" 1080p monitor”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “The font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” - Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
Outdated or incorrect data
“Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “fires from close to ~20 years ago are still showing up as "active emergencies"”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Local news needs timestamps… I see stale last-week weather news.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” - Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
- Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
- Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
- Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
- Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
Icons and emoji break accessibility
“From an accessibility perspective, the HTML emoji might be an issue for screen readers.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “icons fail to render on Mosaic, Netscape and other web 1.0 browsers”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” Location results are sometimes wrong
“I like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)” “Seems to be bugged in places? I'm seeing fire alerts for new Hampshire when I pull up Minnesota.”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Show HN: Safe-now.live – Ultra-light emergency info site (<10KB)”
What people said
27 of the 29 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“does exactly what it says”
“Seems to be bugged in places? I'm seeing fire alerts for new Hampshire when I pull up Minnesota.”
“I don't want to click into my state, then city/county.”
“This is an excellent idea, ill pass it along to friends in emergency management”
“icons fail to render on Mosaic, Netscape and other web 1.0 browsers”
“I like this! I noticed that the weather for some Bay Area counties seem to be getting zeroed out for temperature.”
“From an accessibility perspective, the HTML emoji might be an issue for screen readers.”
“Webapp is light enough to handle 10000 concurrent hits.”
“you're missing and your is outside your”
“Yours is way lighter weight and focused, very cool!”
“Don't make a website like this without verifying the information is correct please!”
“the very first page I looked at was wrong”
“The site is light enough to handle traffic spikes from HN.”
“Works for me 10 minutes after your post.”
“it really needs to be well thought out and tolerant to extreme spikes in traffic”
“The UK emergency phone number is 999, not 112.”
“fires from close to ~20 years ago are still showing up as "active emergencies"”
“it just so happens Alabama rarely has forest fires”
“Local news needs timestamps… I see stale last-week weather news.”
“I'm seeing fires from 1999.”
“Nice touch to have it bilingual in Canada.”
“the linked site feels too small for my eyes on a 21.5" 1080p monitor”
“The font size is too small for emergencies on mobile devices.”
“there's a ton of stuff there but it's all old”
“great stuff!! wish there was sth lk this this side of the pond”
“Even on mobile the text is too small for me. Nice though, I like it.”
“increasing font-size, looks too small”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.