LastShelf
an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts
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After my father was diagnosed with Stage 3 kidney cancer, my family was thrown into a tailspin. Getting second opinions, planning surgery, ensuring insurance coverage, coping with the fear. It was a lot to process.In the middle of dealing with all the medical logistics, I realized none of our family could answer if he: - Had a medical directive? - How to trigger his life insurance policy? - Where is his will and who is the executor? - What bank accounts and credit cards existed? - What bills are not on auto-pay? - When these bills due and how are they paid?That wasn’t solved by password managers or budgeting apps. So I built it.LastShelf: automatically discovers, documents and distributes a map of critical life documents, expenses & contacts in the event of an emergency. Register here: https://www.lastshelf.ai/If you’ve lived through a similar crisis, I really want to hear what would have made the process easier.Anyone who shares their feedback with me will get the first year free. Send a note to support [at] lastshelf.ai
HN · launched Jul 9, 2026 · 47 upvotes (top 16%) · 0 views
Niche: family organizer and household apps · 205 launches, 16 in the last 7 days ▲ +45% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Vertical SaaS
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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More like this: all 205 launches in family organizer and household apps →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a standard CRUD checklist and emergency preparedness guide application with basic questionnaires and document storage.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Trustworthy, Google Docs (shared documents), Taskai, Password managers with deadman's switch, KeePass
Concerns raised: Startup survival risk over decades compared to banks, Privacy/security risk of storing sensitive info with AI-based service, Annual subscription cost barrier for preventive use, Doesn't prioritize critical access like email and phone, Misses the emotional/conversation difficulty of actually gathering information
Feature requests: Prioritize email and phone access recovery as critical first step, Help structure difficult family conversations about information gathering, Support both healthy people planning ahead and families managing current crises, Integrate with password managers that have deadman's switch functionality
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 64 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 65 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 246 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Kosh · ph · 2026-10-13 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- Worth Diary · ph · 2026-10-20 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- The Home Doctor · ph · 2026-11-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- THEIR72 · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.37
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