Comments on: Decisions For Heroes, the ‘BaseCamp for Mountain Rescue’ launches

By: reuben

reuben — Sun, 31 May 2009 00:50:32 +0000

Watch the tv series heroes online at: Watch Heroes Online

By: keith bohanna

keith bohanna — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:03:12 +0000

Sweet endorsement above from Brian Smith. Well done Robin.

keith

By: KillerStartups.com - DecisionsForHeroes.com - Online Base For Rescue Teams

KillerStartups.com - DecisionsForHeroes.com - Online Base For Rescue Teams — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:39:16 +0000

DecisionsForHeroes.com – Online Base For Rescue Teams…

I found your entry interesting do I’ve added a Trackback to it on my weblog …

By: Joe Drumgoole

Joe Drumgoole — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:23:20 +0000

Well done Robin. A fantastic use of web 2.0 for a real world problem.

By: poles

poles — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:28:18 +0000

Best of luck to Decisions. Nice do-good concept.

By: Richard Healy

Richard Healy — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:12:52 +0000

Nice one mate! Good luck with it all. Hopefully we can meet up soon!

By: Simon Best

Simon Best — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:05:36 +0000

Big congrats to Robin.

Was great to meet you at Seedcamp. Always been a fan of D4H so it’s great to see it finally launched! Good luck with everything.

By: Robin Blandford

Wed, 20 May 2009 16:56:28 +0000

Thanks all great comments!

By: Niall Smart

Niall Smart — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:22:57 +0000

Congratulations in the public launch – great site and great community + around it.

By: happyvolunteer

happyvolunteer — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:11:06 +0000

finally.

Which also hints that we are going to see really bad times soon.

Would be best if this kind of heroics would not be needed, but it seems to be otherwise.

at least we will be doing something about it after the disasters.

By: greg

greg — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:03:58 +0000

If we’re looking to Twitter to save lives in an earthquake, we’re f*ed.

By: Gary Morgan

Gary Morgan — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:01:15 +0000

Seriously cool stuff. Well done Robin, you deserve every success.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:41:40 +0000

We’ve been using D4H since late January. I went through all of our paper logs and entered data back to June 2008. The insight that D4H provides for our activities over time has allowed us to make some significant changes to our training. We were easily able to see our weak areas by comparing training to actual incidents.

Being able to provide a “one click” report to those in charge of our activities when asked is also a great feature.

One of our officers stated that D4H is one of the best tools our unit has at it’s disposal right now.

Thanks to Robin for creating a much needed application for an area where there were none before!

By: Vinny Glennon

Vinny Glennon — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:12:52 +0000

Great Execution, a perfect example of resource-constrained bootstrapping to get a quality product out into the wild.

By: wtf twitterbethyname

wtf twitterbethyname — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:31:44 +0000

“unless you count the generic use of things like Twitter to get the word out fast about an earthquake or some other life-threatening event.”

No, you wouldn’t count twitter because it wasn’t started to save people’s lives; neither specific nor generic (whatever that means).

And if someone needs twitter to tell them they are in an earthquake or other life threatening situation, darwinism will soon take care everything for them.

By: Jeromakay

Jeromakay — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:24:07 +0000

Decisions for Heroes, life saving web app…

I’ve got to say this is a very well applied idea on how people can use the internet and apply it’s benefits to real life (saving) situations[...]
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By: Robin Blandford [ ByteSurgery.com ] » Updated: Launch Day, Just keeping my head above water!

Wed, 20 May 2009 11:40:24 +0000

[...] TechCrunch.com / Mike Butcher Decisions For Heroes, the ‘BaseCamp for Mountain Rescue’ launches. There are not many startups that set out to save peoples lives. [...]

By: Donagh Mc Sweeney

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:39:35 +0000

Great job with the website. A bright future and nice to see people developing things that can actually save lives. Well done!

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:29:10 +0000

Great to see this come to life, loved it at seedcamp. Down the road, lots of potentially interesting business opportunities leveraging the data. Well done!

By: Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan — Wed, 20 May 2009 11:04:11 +0000

Well done to Robin and all the Decisions For Heroes team, great product, have followed this from start to now,

By: Lenny

Lenny — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:55:15 +0000

Well done Robin. Looking forward to seeing this app blossom.

By: PaulSweeney

PaulSweeney — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:49:13 +0000

Oh dear, is it wrong of me to call it cutting edge?

By: Eamonn Grant

Eamonn Grant — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:41:10 +0000

Well don RB! Congrats on the launch and best of luck with the DFH

By: Robin Blandford

Wed, 20 May 2009 10:37:54 +0000

Excellent Write-up! Thank you Mike!

Very happy to arrange demo accounts for all TechCrunch readers in rescue teams (Coast Guard, Mountain Rescue, Wilderness or Urban SAR).

Email robin@bytesurgery.com or call

United States – (408) 844 4965
United Kingdom – (020) 323 999 04
Ireland – (01) 442 9217

By: Iarfhlaith Kelly

Iarfhlaith Kelly — Wed, 20 May 2009 10:36:30 +0000

Basecamp for Danger seems to be sticking

Well done Robin, sky’s the limit!