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

Two things that could make me like this more:

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.

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!

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".

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.

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.

Otherwise pretty neat :)

But very cool, what service are you using for the calling? It sent the example phone call within seconds to Toronto.

So we developed the idea further in some other use cases: eg. 'take medicine pill' reminder call for your old parents etc.

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.

Can it tell us the HN frontpage as well?