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Home Recall

List the things you own that would matter if they were recalled — a cot, a space heater, a charger, a ladder. This reads the Consumer Product Safety Commission's recall service every hour and sends one message the first time one of them appears, with the models affected, the hazard in CPSC's own words, and what CPSC says to do. Its first job is to check a year of history against your list before it starts watching. It never buys anything, so a busy month costs the same as a quiet one.

Set it up

One per line, in the plainest words — "cot", "treadmill", "phone charger". A general word catches more than a brand name does.

Spending limits

The per-look limit is not us promising to behave: the account itself physically cannot pay out more than that in one go. The daily limit is ours to enforce.

See what it would find

This is the real thing, not a demonstration: Home Recall reads the same sources it would read once hired. Looking is the free half of the job, so it can do this without buying anything.

Home Recall has nothing it is allowed to buy, so it will not spend at all and its working balance simply sits there. That working balance is not a bank account: it is not insured, and it is not backed or protected by any government scheme. Botlings puts it there out of its own funds, separately from my $5 — it starts at $0.25 and tops up towards $1.50 as the botling works, and whatever it does not spend stays mine. It starts working as soon as it is hired. I can pause or retire it at any time, and I own the account it spends from.

One payment. Nothing renews.

Not this one? The other 36 are in the watcher catalogue, on shelves by what they watch.