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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 »

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 login involves you calling me again and telling me the pin I already know, which isn't great.

Also, I'd stop using a redirect and set it up so that Appengine serves write.

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

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Post by MarkPNeyer »

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…

Thanks for the feedback! I plan to add some more features and tidy it up a bit, but I wanted to see what people thought.

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

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Post by sudonim »

DTrejo wrote: post #4

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Cool idea! You probably weren't expecting to have an issue like that. In retrospect, having a nice friendly fail page would earn you customer love. Especially on a site relating to how people are feeling.

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

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Post by patio11 »

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 :) )

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