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Rate my hackathon hack gone startup, rooster.am - the smart alarm
- sammville 16y agoInteresting.. Can it call the U.K?
- JonLim 16y agoJust got my example call, that rooster call is horrifying. But very cool, what service are you using for the calling? It sent the example phone call within seconds to Toronto.
- tomatohs 16y agoIts all done via twilio: http://www.twilio.com/ http://www.twilio.com/
- JonLim 16y agoI figured it was Twilio, well done!
- eam 16y agoThe example call for me was: "We're sorry, an application error has occurred."
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- tomatohs 16y agoFixed now, traffic spike was breaking things.
- tomatohs 16y agoFor those who are interested, here is my pitch at the November NYTM: http://meetjennings.com/uncategorized/rooster-am-presentation-at-nytm-november-2nd-2010/ http://meetjennings.com/uncategorized/rooster-am-presentatio...
- CWIZO 16y agoHow can I delete my account? It seems it's not working for me (I'm from Slovenia) and I don't want to have an account with a service that does not work for me. Hope you understand.
- tomatohs 16y agoSure, send me an email and I'll delete your account immediately. ian [at] meetjennings.com. Could you tell me a little more about the problem?
- boredguy8 16y agoHere's what I don't like about this: I have all these services on my phone, each app-click away at most. And my phone comes with as many alarms as I want. I'm not sure this is a particularly useful synthesis, especially since I have to hold my phone to my ear to get the benefit. Two things that could make me like this more: 1) Let me get the alert on my computer. I currently set two alarms on my phone and one alarm at kukuklok.com. I'd immediately switch to your app if I could have it start talking to me on my computer at the appointed time, rather than having it call my phone. 2) Ring back if I don't push a button to confirm I'm up. Give me an option for if I just hang up the call, call me back. Nagging is good when it's trying to get me out of bed! For what it's worth: this feedback is based off the landing page. I wasn't able to get the app to "call me now".
- tomatohs 16y agoTry again now, the server was having problems with the traffic.
- paul9290 16y agoYou mention you use an online clock now and are interested in one that speaks information. Check out http://sleep.fm http://sleep.fm ... wakes & speak the weather, status of your airline flight (data from flightcaster.com), as well another option you can ask your friends to choose a fun alarm sound(youtube vid) to wake you up. Which ive heard many think is a crazy idea yet if you ever woke up to Pandora.com or a radio station it's the same thing, yet the alarm that wakes you was selected by friend(has some meaning to it).
- JCB_K 16y agoA better design would be a good start :) Great idea though!
- ryanelkins 16y agoSeems like it might be down. I tried sending an example to my cofounder because I wanted him to answer the phone and have a rooster scream into his ear but so far all I've got is an ajax spinner going. Now all the giggling I was doing on the other side of the office just seems extra creepy.
- vyrotek 16y agoIndeed it was Update - I finally received my rooster call and it was glorious
- tomatohs 16y agoTry now. Server was having trouble with the traffic.
- ryanelkins 16y agoYeah, seems to be working now, although he had seen my previous comment so he just gave me a dirty look when his phone started ringing. He did answer though, and I heard him mutter something about "pickles and tomatoes" trending on twitter.
- seancron 16y agoI see a Reddit icon next to "Recite the top technology stories." Can it tell us the HN frontpage as well?
- tomatohs 16y agoIn the future ;)
- dooq 16y agoI put in my 778 area code phone number to test. You should detect this area code is on pacific time, and adjust accordingly. The time you told me was 3 hours off.
- tomatohs 16y agoThe test script just takes an existing alarm and reads it out. Signup asks you for a timezone. 1) An area code may span over multiple timezones 2) A user may have a google voice number Area code does not necessarily indicate timezone
- x0t 16y ago479 area code here, the time was off by one hour (18:49 rather than 17:49).
- tomatohs 16y agoWas this on the test, or did you make an account?
- ameyamk 16y agoI had thought about this idea earlier this year, and immediately killed it, realizing most people would just use smart phone for this. So we developed the idea further in some other use cases: eg. 'take medicine pill' reminder call for your old parents etc. I still think, just an alarm for myself may not be very useful, but there can be some interesting use cases to remind people with useful info.
- famousactress 16y agoI'm not sure I'm 100% in agreement with the arguments that our phones are best used for all of these cases.. I can imagine some interesting cases with smarts... Text me when the surf is really good before 9am, or wake me up early if the traffic is particularly bad.. ring me if one of the stocks in my portfolio starts taking a dive. I dunno.. I think there could be some neat applications for an intelligent alarm service.
- fuzzmeister 16y agoWhile an alarm clock should be annoying to a certain extent, the rooster sound is just a bit much. I like it otherwise, though.
- stanmancan 16y agoSince there's huge potential for abuse, I'd like to see there be some sort of confirmation system in place. When you set an alarm, it calls the number entered and asks you to enter in a code displayed on screen or something. That way you can confirm the person on the computer at least has access to the phone. If the same IP address tries to set alarms for X numbers and they all fail, black list that IP or something. Somebody could potentially go in and create alarms to call people all night and there's nothing the victim could do except turn their phone off. Otherwise pretty neat :)
- tomatohs 16y agoHave half of this coded already, will show up in the future.
- hucker 16y agoThe "Try me!" textbox won't even let me put in the whole number, when trying to use +47(Norway) as country code... Does this only work in the US?
- jawartak 16y agoQuick typo fix: 'forcast' should be 'forecast'.