I was cranking out procedures so my coworkers can cover for me. In the even that I die, or *gasp* actually take some time off, the company will live on . It started to feel like I was filling out a living will; which is probably a sign that I’m taking too much ownership of my projects but I digress.
“If I up and die, steps one through seven will need to be taken to restore the database”.
Then it hit me. Probably my most morbidly shallow and materialistic idea to date, but what the hell.
IfIUpAndDie.com (conveniently still available), the site where your potential heirs can kiss your ass, and bid for your stuff – in the event of your unfortunate death.
Ooh, a family council center will be an offshoot business cause there will defiantly be some feuding. Okay, back to the original idea.
Here’s the premise: Login and list your assets, now tell all your family/friends – heck even strangers. They can login and submit why they deserve said item, or what they are willing to bid or do to get it. (alternate name heirbid.com)
Got a Porsche? Cousin Billy bids to mow your lawn for 12 months if he gets it in the will. Then, uncle Ted outbids him by offering free labor on an in ground pool.
Wealth is all about leveraging the assets you already have. Too bad I’m going to hell for even thinking this up.
You sick bastard, that’s brilliant!
Cops would love it too. Someone gets murdered but wait, there’s no motive. So, they look the deceased up on ifiupadndie.com and find out that shady cousin Lou was willing to donate his first born and his left nut for the SUV. Busted.
Grab that domain dude! I see two separate sites…
(1) Create a national repository for emergency procedures (for when the regular IT/support folks are out, or Up and Die). Charge a monthly service fee for keeping the info secure and online.
(The sad thing is that after you document this stuff, nobody will read it.)
Big businesses will probably just take the idea and implement it in-house for free though… but you’ve got a shot at the smaller businesses and regular folks. “Charlie died, where’s the combo to the safe? -> IfIUpAndDie.com”
You’ll need Charlie to supply e-mail addresses of everyone that needs to be notified in case of his death…
(2) The heirs/living will thing (www.YouveGotHeirs.com?).
Thats great MH, but having that kind of info, we’d may as well hang a “hack us cause we got all the corporate secrets” sign on the front of the buildig.
Oh but wait, I’m sure Microsoft is already collecting that data through IE, and have even gone as far as to have a patent on insecure data stores of secure data anyway.
Man you should totally do that. I’d sign up. Do you think my transformer collection would bring in big bids? lol