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This is a simple alarm app with a unique function... after 3 snoozes,
or a few minutes of alarm activity with no response,
it sends a pre-configured text message to pre-selected contacts
saying something along the lines of "It appears I've slept through my
alarm, would you be so kind as to
wake
me up?"
The antithesis of this idea...
http://www.halfbake..._20let_20me_20sleep
[normzone, Oct 27 2011]
Related concept: Alica Wang's tyrant alarm clock
http://joshspear.co...g-sleep-inventions/
"steals your mobile phone and makes random calls every three minutes until you get up." [jutta, Nov 07 2011]
Close, but no cigar
https://market.andr...HRBbGFybUxpdGUiXQ..
This seems pretty close, but it's more of an office assistant kind of thing than a sleep alarm. My idea is an app that is a full-featured alarm, with texting as an add-on snooze function. [21 Quest, Nov 08 2011]
Somebody did it!
http://www.wakie.com
My idea has made it to the real world, although with no credit given to me... [21 Quest, Jan 10 2015]
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The Good Fairy Jenny has already loaded my iPad with a
number of ingeniously annoying wake-up apps. This one
would spread the misery to my friends and relatives,
which, naturally, I approve of. I already have somebody in
mind. In fact, if this app becomes available, I may start
deliberately oversleeping. |
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// my friends and relatives, which, naturally, I
approve of// Well, it's natural to approve of your
friends, but if you approve of your relatives you're a
lucky man. |
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syntax error >>> redo from start (!!!) |
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Nonono, the syntax error was Maxwell's. For his
interpretation to be accurate, you would have to have said
"who, naturally, I approve of." |
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I know, I just can't resist a good Discworld reference. |
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Ah... I am not familiar with Discworld. |
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You have some reading to catch up on. |
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[21Q], you should email wakie.com. Not that it'll do
you any good, but they might at least say "hi" and be
gracious. |
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I may try, using Google's App Inventor, creating a demo
alarm app along these lines. I would have it respond to an
excessive delay in my shutting off an alarm by selecting any
"co-worker" from my contacts and text them a notification
of my death.
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I would probably want to disable this app if/when I actually
succeed in landing a job. |
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If all your friends were also asleep, would the 'wake-up' message cascade to their friends? |
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I really like that cascade function idea. |
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