A page that tells whoever finds your thing how to reach you — at an address short enough to write by hand. No app to install, no tag to buy, nothing to replace when the sticker falls off.
That is the whole idea. Every other version of this needs you to buy their tag, scan their code, or keep their app installed. This one needs a surface and something to write with.
Marker on a case, engraving on a bike frame, ballpoint inside a hat. Any punctuation works — (533) 548-9494 and 5335489494 are the same page.
Generate one for a laptop lid or a luggage tag. It points at the same address you could have written, so a scuffed code is not a dead end.
It is just text. Anything that can print text can print it, and you never have to order a replacement.
Under a minute, and then it works for five years.
We text you a code to prove the number is yours. Until you enter it, the page does not exist to anyone else.
Keys, laptop, camera bag, instrument case, kid's water bottle. One number covers all of them.
They get your page, or a form that reaches you privately. Either way, they can give it back.
You choose per record, and you can change it after something goes missing.
The page shows what you put on it — a name, an email, a phone, whatever you want a finder to see. Nothing is shown that you did not type.
The page shows a message form and nothing else. Not your name, not your number, not whether the record even belongs to anybody.
A finder's message reaches you. You decide whether to reply, and whether to reply by email or text. You can offer a reward. They never learn who you are unless you tell them.
Things worth knowing before you put this on something that matters.
A number is a lease, not a property. Phone numbers get recycled. Whoever can prove control of a number by SMS holds the slug — documents do not override a failed proof, because that is the only rule that cannot be socially engineered.
Nothing resolves until it is proven. An unverified claim is a private draft that expires. Typing a stranger's phone number in gets you the same response as typing one that was never registered, which is the point.