Death Plan Switch launches solo-dev succession tool

The product’s strength is its restraint: it turns succession planning into a simple, auditable notification workflow rather than pretending to be a digital vault. Its biggest risk is operational—self-hosting, cron, SMTP, and uptime all become part of the succession plan.

• –A staged six-day escalation reduces false alarms while still notifying the right people within 13 days of the last check-in.
• –The “button press” requirement avoids email scanners accidentally confirming someone is alive.
• –Separate hosting and external health monitoring are essential; if the switch shares infrastructure with the business it protects, one outage can disable both.
• –The project is AI-adjacent rather than an AI product: Claude Code helped build it, but the shipped value is conventional PHP automation.
• –Forty-two unit tests are a useful starting point, not proof of long-term reliability; rehearsals with real contacts and mail delivery matter more.