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My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Re: My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Post by jackowayed »

patio11 wrote: post #10
jackowayed wrote: post #3

Whoa, you're giving each person their own number (as opposed to, say, an extension). That means you're paying $1/customer/month even for dormant customers. Seems like a really bad call. Other than that, I really like it. Sorta like Awesomeness Reminders, but recorded by people who love you. Design could use some work, but the signup flow was nice (not requiring any info but phone number). Though now the only way to l…

That means you're paying $1/customer/month even for dormant customers. Seems like a really bad call. I do this for Appointment Reminder, too, mostly out of sheer laziness. I might revisit it eventually, but it hasn't broken the bank yet. (Finding my own number on my Twilio interface has gotten annoyingly complicated, though :) )

But people are paying you. Right now his service is free.

Re: My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Post by partition »

Great idea. But what if no one loves you?

To address this, you might be able to automatically generate moral support. You just need to add a 'link to Facebook' feature along with a little machine learning + speech->text->speech algorithms so that the most 'appropriate' message can be generated given the current time and the user's Facebook status.

With enough data to bootstrap the system, we'll probably end up not even needing other people IRL.

Re: My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Post by nhebb »

MarkPNeyer wrote: post #6
DTrejo wrote: post #4

:( This website is temporarily unavailable, please try again later.

I'm not sure what happened to the DNS; use this link instead: http://moral-support.appspot.com/

If you're a Depeche Mode fan, YourOwnPersonalJes.us seems to be available.

Re: My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Post by neilk »

I don't know what to call this. Part of me has an instant reaction that it's a terrible idea, but on reflection that's because I'm uncomfortable with it. So that's prejudice talking. If I look at it rationally, it seems like this just might work. It's kind of brilliant.

One suggestion: people who don't reach out to others are not going to buy this product for themselves. So, it should be giftable. Imagine if you have a friend who's kind of a sad sack or is going through a divorce or death in the family. You and N other friends record motivators. It's like signing a condolences card, only way better. Actually more personal.

Re: My Weekend Project: Moral Support - Your Own Personal Help Hotline

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Post by MarkPNeyer »

neilk wrote: post #16

I don't know what to call this. Part of me has an instant reaction that it's a terrible idea, but on reflection that's because I'm uncomfortable with it. So that's prejudice talking. If I look at it rationally, it seems like this just might work. It's kind of brilliant. One suggestion: people who don't reach out to others are not going to buy this product for themselves. So, it should be giftable. Imagine if you have…

Thanks for the idea. I think i'll implement the 'gift' mechanism.
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