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Re: Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email

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Post by garyrob »

This is very much like a project I made for myself and have been thinking about commercializing! "create nudges that repeatedly nag you (with something like an escalation policy) until you acknowledge them" but that has absolutely been my plan! It does text me and my idea has been that it would escalate to phoning!

I've been using my own version, completely terminal-based, for more than a year now and it has changed my life. I'm a lot like your wife; other systems haven't worked for me. This does, because I do look at all my SMS messages every day and dismiss them. Todoist's alerts just didn't do the job, and other systems didn't either.

I almost certainly would have had a product out in this area months ago but my attention has been going to crypto-related projects! I have the start of a Django-based UI nudge-like product now. I've been working on it in the background, partly in case none of my crypto stuff works out, and partly just to learn web UI development.

I'm not sure where my project will go now that yours is out, but congratulations on getting it out there, and good luck! (Now I'm thinking I might just open source my terminal version, and drop the django one. Techies could use the terminal version by getting their own twilio accounts...)

Re: Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email

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Post by netsharc »

blackbear_ wrote: post #44
netsharc wrote: post #39

A few weeks ago I thought about setting a Telegram bot to send me a reminder to do stuff, you get the dopamine hit of "Oh someone's sent me a message" so hopefully it's harder to ignore. I've also thought of a To Do app that has statistics of how long you've ignored/snoozed items, to shock people like me who's procrastinated things like learning French for probably 5+ years now...

There's an app that constantly reminds me to exercise in a similar way: "Your body needs energy! You haven't exercised for 567 days" - at this point it's just funny to see the number go up and up

The app could just remind the user less and less if they keep hitting snooze, e.g. 2 days, 4 days, 8, etc...

That would certainly better than something like Chrome on Android, where, on every load of a site I like to visit, it (the browser, not the site, because the site doesn't have such gimmicks) popped up a dialog that says "Put this site on your home screen for quick access.". I went into settings to see if there's a "Shut the fuck up you moron" toggle, couldn't find it, went back to the site, "Put this site on your home screen for quick access."

Re: Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email

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Post by bigthymer »

Hey, I wanted to wait a day or so before commenting but I wanted to let you know that you can send an email to a specific email address so the receiver receives an SMS text. People may try to cheap out of paying by doing so. Good luck on the venture!

Re: Show HN: Nudges.fyi – simple, unmissable reminders via phone/text/email

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Post by aunterste »

boxed wrote: post #54

I believe the concept of notifications is deeply flawed. I've written about this: https://kodare.net/2021/09/10/status-not-notifications.html

You are absolutely right for 'collaborative tools' where most status changes are meaningless. But I think OP is going after something else, you nudging yourself repeatedly to start something you are dreading.
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