Show HN: Never ask someone more than once to do something - iPrompted

- Hopefully, the app provides the recipient of the message a way to opt out of all future messages (and deletes their personal information immediately upon receipt of such a request).<p>- I&#x27;d consider it to be a violation of my privacy if someone who wanted to remind me of something shared my contact details with a third party service without getting my permission first.<p>- I&#x27;d consider it to be insulting if someone asked me to do something by sending me automatically generated messages. If it&#x27;s important enough to remind me about, it&#x27;s important enough for them to spend the time to send me a personal message. I&#x27;d only ever use an app like this to send reminders to myself, and there are already dozens of ways for me to do that (e.g., calendar reminders).

This is literally nagware!<p>:D<p>No judgement here, I just chuckled and had to say it. (I have had similar thoughts)<p>Good luck.<p>Aw shit, I should not say this, but... I once thought up a service where people would sign up to make calls and or send texts. Use cases were:<p>Get the word out. Politics, fund raisers, events, that sort of thing.<p>Public service. Warnings, availability of resources.<p>Deliver short message. Advertising. Think 5 seconds, or a very targeted &quot;tweet&quot; in the form of SMS.<p>Bounty, info request. Get contact info for X. Or, what system do you use? Who does hiring? Whatever. (Controversial, I know)<p>The distributed nature of it made blocks hard.<p>Users, in a short alpha simulation, liked some use cases, hated others. It was difficult to arrive at what activities were worth it.<p>Since you are entering this space, I will just leave it all here. (Was not for me, for personal reasons)

Have not tested it but curious as to the target audience. The home page feels like a &quot;Mom reminding kids to take out the garbage&quot; front-end (ie, very personal: nothing wrong with that).<p>As you look ahead and folks request more features it could eventually look like (searching... searching... Ok. Found something):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecanyon.net&#x2F;item&#x2F;activity-board-activity-manager&#x2F;634766" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codecanyon.net&#x2F;item&#x2F;activity-board-activity-manager&#x2F;...</a> (see screenshots)<p>At this point, it stops feeling like &quot;nagware&quot; as someone mentioned but a more polished&#x2F;friendly business&#x2F;GTD tool. I&#x27;ve used similar to the linked sample in the years past (email notifications only) and it&#x27;s been very effective for tracking virtually everything.<p>A response by recipient (person responsible for the task) to the email gets added to the database and keeping track of the progress is available to admin(s), team members or all.<p>I mention the above only because in it&#x27;s present state (have not kicked the tires, basing it on the front page, do not want to provide actual cell numbers now) it just seems much easier to directly send a SMS.

It is potentially a human Denial of Service attack. Enough SMS nags and phone life becomes impossible. I give it a couple days before it&#x27;s abused enough for their Twillio account to get flagged. There isn&#x27;t any validation. I could just start having two strangers screw with each other. You could make a circle of annoyance or use your own Twillio to kind of botnet some large scale annoyance.<p>I accidentally human DDoSd my boss once by submitting multiple Azure support requests at level A and put in his cell phone number. Several support people started responding but they put them all on the same Exchange list so they kept responding to each other and it sent him an email and text. It took hours to clear it up, his phone was so buzzy he had to turn it off all afternoon while I attempted to stop the helper train with more texts, calls, and emails.

Sounds like #2 Replace Email[0]. Has any product come close to solving this yet?<p>[0] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;ambitious.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.paulgraham.com&#x2F;ambitious.html</a>

&quot;Never ask someone more than once to do something&quot; -- that&#x27;s a big promise. Will it work on my son when I tell him to put on his shoes because it&#x27;s time to go to school?

I’m just not brave enough to stick my number in there.

if this was an email based service that might encourage me to test drive it... not sure why sms was the chosen option?

Currently, the site only supports prompts to people with US-based, mobile phone numbers. Sorry for the inconvenience.