bback.me goes live

Some ob­jects are pre­cious to us. Not that they cost a lot, but they may car­ry a good mem­o­ry, have some sen­ti­men­tal val­ue or more sim­ply, be es­sen­tial to our day to day life —  key­chain, cred­it card, phone, hand­bag, but al­so, baby’s com­forter, lug­gage or coat.

We have all ex­pe­ri­enced the trou­bles of hav­ing lost one of our be­long­ing and their im­pact on our day to day life, ei­ther be­cause of the costs in­curred or the ad­di­tion­al ad­min­is­tra­tive bur­den.

Some­time, we al­so find a for­got­ten gar­men­t, a key or even a lap­top on pub­lic trans­porta­tion. We would like to help, but have no way to get in touch with their own­er.

Hav­ing ex­pe­ri­enced those sit­u­a­tion­s, and be­ing con­vinced that the hu­man be­ing is good by na­ture and is will­ing to help, we set up a sys­tem which would al­low peo­ple find­ing lost items to eas­i­ly get in touch with their own­er.

The main idea — which is not new in it­self — is to mark the ob­jects with an ID which al­lows peo­ple find­ing them to get in touch with the own­er. The nov­el­ty is to use an ID which is an in­ter­net ad­dress (URL), and which is eas­i­ly rec­og­niz­able as such.