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Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#21
So, I'd be happy to buy this (for a family member), but I can't tell when you'll call, and I can't tell how I get it to stop once I do buy it. Every day for a month is gonna be a bit much; by the end of it, they might be willing to pay to stop it.

Also, some kind of sample recording would be great. Is it gonna be cheezy? Cheeky? I'd like to know.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#24
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Would also be a good idea - maybe just for the fun of it - to have a stepped pricing plan. So for $2 a month, someone will call you once a week and tell you that "You're adequate". :) Seriously though, a cheap pricing plan (something less than a beer) for someone to do something similar via Social Media (Twitter, Facebook) might work too.

For twitter there's already awesomeupdater that will do it for free: http://www.awesomeupdater.com/content/index

That was a fun hack. When i originally launched it - it proxied all the updates through the users accounts. ;) needless the users were like "wtf." heh. I removed that feature

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#26
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder how this would scale...using Mechanical Turk?

Outsourcing to a country like India could work.

"You're awesome, and you could be even more awesome if you switch your long-distance carrier to ..."

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#27
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"If for some reason someone else picks up your phone and is abusive to us, we reserve the right to terminate your service and issue you a refund." :-)

If the people close enough to you to answer your phone are not awesome, then we will be forced to conclude that neither are you.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#28

I'm not sure that I get it. Isn't this a bit shallow? Surely it takes some of the joy out of being told that you're awesome if you have to pay people to tell you that you're awesome? A bit like paying people to be your friend?

I want to do it for a family member.

Why not just call them up yourself?

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

#30
Hmmm. The best citation you can come up with for your claim on your about page that "Getting positive social feedback, via a daily reminder call, is instrumental to progress." is a book on personal development by Steve Pavlina?

My understanding is unwarranted ego-boosting can actually be harmful. But that does not mean people won't use the service.

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