Rate my hackathon hack gone startup, rooster.am - the smart alarm

Here'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.<p>Two things that could make me like this more:<p>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.<p>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!<p>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".

Seems 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.

Since there's huge potential for abuse, I'd like to see there be some sort of confirmation system in place.<p>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.<p>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.<p>Otherwise pretty neat :)

I'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.

For those who are interested, here is my pitch at the November NYTM: <a href="http://meetjennings.com/uncategorized/rooster-am-presentation-at-nytm-november-2nd-2010/" rel="nofollow">http://meetjennings.com/uncategorized/rooster-am-presentatio...</a>

Just got my example call, that rooster call is horrifying.<p>But very cool, what service are you using for the calling? It sent the example phone call within seconds to Toronto.

I had thought about this idea earlier this year, and immediately killed it, realizing most people would just use smart phone for this.<p>So we developed the idea further in some other use cases: eg. 'take medicine pill' reminder call for your old parents etc.<p>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.

How 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.

I 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.

The "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?

While an alarm clock should be annoying to a certain extent, the rooster sound is just a bit much. I like it otherwise, though.

I see a Reddit icon next to "Recite the top technology stories."<p>Can it tell us the HN frontpage as well?

Interesting.. Can it call the U.K?

479 area code here, the time was off by one hour (18:49 rather than 17:49).

A better design would be a good start :) Great idea though!

Quick typo fix: 'forcast' should be 'forecast'.