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?"-- 21 Quest, Oct 27 2011 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.comMy idea has made it to the real world, although with no credit given to me... [21 Quest, Jan 10 2015] 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.-- Alterother, Oct 27 2011 // 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.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2011 syntax error >>> redo from start (!!!)-- Alterother, Oct 27 2011 Nonono, the syntax error was Maxwell's. For his interpretation to be accurate, you would have to have said "who, naturally, I approve of."-- 21 Quest, Oct 28 2011 I know, I just can't resist a good Discworld reference.-- Alterother, Oct 28 2011 Ah... I am not familiar with Discworld.-- 21 Quest, Oct 28 2011 shame on you!-- po, Oct 28 2011 You have some reading to catch up on.-- normzone, Jan 11 2015 [21Q], you should email wakie.com. Not that it'll do you any good, but they might at least say "hi" and be gracious.-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 11 2015 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.
I would probably want to disable this app if/when I actually succeed in landing a job.-- lurch, Jan 11 2015 If all your friends were also asleep, would the 'wake-up' message cascade to their friends?-- hippo, Jan 12 2015 I really like that cascade function idea.-- 21 Quest, Jan 12 2015 random, halfbakery