Typically it is simply good for somebody to acknowledge your existence … and a Chinese language firm is cashing in on that feeling with a brand new app known as “Are You Lifeless?”

Apparently, there are such a lot of lonely singles on the planet’s second-most populous nation, there’s an enormous untapped marketplace for common check-ins.

The best way it really works is easy … customers arrange emergency contacts, and each couple of days the app sends a inexperienced button with a cute little ghost on it. Customers need to click on it to verify they’re alive. In the event that they miss 2 consecutive faucets, the app notifies their emergency contacts to verify on them … all for a bit over $1.

One consumer informed BBC Information, “There’s a worry that folks dwelling alone may die unnoticed, with nobody to name for assist. I generally surprise, if I died alone, who would gather my physique?”

Regardless of the dour identify, “Are You Lifeless?” is all the trend in Hong Kong, Singapore and the U.S., rating among the many high paid utility apps … presumably attributable to Chinese language customers dwelling abroad.