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Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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iliketosleep wrote: post #70
mahmud wrote: post #62

Zack, I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin ( When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first. I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then buil…

maybe he is creating a bunch of sites in the hope that one of them goes viral? such a strategy may have merit. it's very much hit or miss. but if he keeps trying he may have a hit eventually.

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Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by zackattack »

vnchr wrote: post #51
vnchr wrote: post #50

I think it's a tad disconcerting that there is an empty blog... This seems like an easy blog topic to have some posts already made and, if a feature doesn't "work", why link to it?

Ah, and all action links go to your Twitter profile. Well, I guess that makes it clear to be an HTML mock-up. God help you if your "idea" goes viral right away ;)

bug fixed, thanks

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by spython »

spxdcz wrote: post #6

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.

Could be a great test for the freemium model - giving away "You suck" for free, "You're adequate" for 2$ and ""You're awesome" for 10$ a month :)

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by izendejas »

philk wrote: post #37

I might be missing the point here but paying someone to tell me I'm awesome would make me feel rather sad. Of course, that may not extend to everyone. I imagine a reasonable portion of the self help community would embrace this sort of thing.

There's surely a market, that point I do get, (how big I guess we'll find out) but sometimes I don't get this kind of allocation of resources. Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you should.

Anyway to the point: the site is awful. Bright yellow background? It's too simplistic (too 90s) and it just seems like a "scammy" site--which ironically (by some's standards, anyway) it might as well be.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by icode »

mahmud wrote: post #62

Zack, I am a fan, but your recent rash of "sites" is worrisome. You launched: HipHopGoblin ( When do you even have time to improve, even promote, projects if you're tossing them on a weekly basis? It takes time to make anything monetizable, at least you need to create it first. I think you're just an small sample of a generation of people who are coming to see businesses as just "idea + landing page". Sell, then buil…

> Slow down, for your own sake

I wonder why this has gotten 28 points. WHY should he slow down? I have done many many things myself and some have become very profitable.

From my experience, the fastest route to success is to do what you like. If this guy likes to start a new startup every week then he should go for it. If someone likes to do one thing for 50 years he should go for that. Neither of them would be wrong.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by confuzatron »

mahmud wrote: post #64
aralib wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or you could send an email. Wouldn't it be worth more if you reminded them rather than a hired stranger reminding them, even if you can't remind them every day or every month?

With the twilio API,and a small shell-script tucked into your /etc/cron.d, you can tell mom you love her several times a minute.

Nothing says 'I love you' like a Denial of Service attack.

Re: Review my site: AwesomenessReminders

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Post by kolektiv »

zackattack wrote: post #36
gcheong wrote: post #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.

Positive social feedback is super useful in achieving goals. Also, I totally agree that it's key to have a balanced and accurate sense of self. But the vast majority of people are affected by social feedback. c.f. this study at Wake forest University http://psp.sagepub.com/content/29/5/623.abstract .

Positive social feedback is useful, but I think that I would take issue with the definition of social here. Social means genuinely social, not a paid reproduction of social. I would think that people who would genuinely enjoy this service may have some self-image and narcissism issues which would be better served by spending the money addressing those.

This is the same kind of awesome as claiming to be an amazing Casanova due to having slept with many prostitutes. It's not always about the action, but the intention.

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