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This is actually very interesting. Because you can just turn this around make sure that the person at home leaves their house at that time because someone is coming :) Out of curiosity are you also working on an appointment specific service?

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Yes, appointments are part of it, but also simple timekeeping for hourly employees, managing schedules, etc. So, a cleaning might be scheduled for 3 hours, but it may take 5 hours--this needs to be accounted for. We may also integrate scheduling based on spatial analysis of available employees.

We're still early in the process (much earlier than Patrick is w/ AR), but we've also explored the idea of integrating Twilio. It's nice to see how it's being used.

Edit: it's not a general purpose appointment manager and reminders are not central to my product. More of a basecamp-like app for cleaning services, of which appointments are a part. What are you working on?

I cannot stress enough how much value customers will perceive from a few days of work with Twilio. You can have remote crews punch in and punch out on their cell phones. This reduces paperwork and saves labor costs.

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