3 ms·
I love the idea (and simplicity of it) but isn't this basically forwarding each scheduled message to follow up service? Seems like a little too much trust invol
by RossM 15y ago
I love the idea (and simplicity of it) but isn't this basically forwarding each scheduled message to follow up service? Seems like a little too much trust involved for me.
- sourc3 15y agoI totally agree with you. As a small business I would not want to share those types of messages with a third party especially when they have no monetization strategy defined on their web site. I don't want my customers ending up with better "offers" from my competitors in the next 6 months. Maybe I am too cautious and paranoid, but to me using a local system seems the only sane way to address the follow up reminder need.
- ckeller 15y agoAll the services mentioned charge per month, but FollowUp.cc also has a Free plan, not sure about the others.
- baydinalex 15y agoIf security is a big concern and you like the MSDOS-in-the-cc-field interface for this sort of thing (I like a menu, datepicker, and natural language input, but I'm obviously biased!), check out http://www.bumper.cc http://www.bumper.cc. It's an open-source replacement for FollowUpThen, FollowUpCC, NudgeMail, Laytr, HitMeLater, etc. The developer claims that it takes only 5 minutes to set up, and you can get a micro AWS instance for free. Then you control all the data, and you don't have to pay.
- RossM 15y agoBrilliant, was just about to start making one of these myself (this practice would be great for actually getting responses out of lecturers), thanks for sharing.
- beezee 15y agoThe developer would be me, thanks for the shout Alex! :) Quick shameless plug, this was a weekend project and it's up on Github, just PHP and MySQL, so if anyone wants to contribute it is more than welcome.