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I love the idea (and simplicity of it) but isn't this basically forwarding each scheduled message to follow up service? Seems like a little too much trust involved for me.

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I totally agree with you. As a small business I would not want to share those types of messages with a third party especially when they have no monetization strategy defined on their web site. I don't want my customers ending up with better "offers" from my competitors in the next 6 months. Maybe I am too cautious and paranoid, but to me using a local system seems the only sane way to address the follow up reminder need.

All the services mentioned charge per month, but FollowUp.cc also has a Free plan, not sure about the others.

If security is a big concern and you like the MSDOS-in-the-cc-field interface for this sort of thing (I like a menu, datepicker, and natural language input, but I'm obviously biased!), check out http://www.bumper.cc. It's an open-source replacement for FollowUpThen, FollowUpCC, NudgeMail, Laytr, HitMeLater, etc.

The developer claims that it takes only 5 minutes to set up, and you can get a micro AWS instance for free. Then you control all the data, and you don't have to pay.

Brilliant, was just about to start making one of these myself (this practice would be great for actually getting responses out of lecturers), thanks for sharing.

The developer would be me, thanks for the shout Alex! :)

Quick shameless plug, this was a weekend project and it's up on Github, just PHP and MySQL, so if anyone wants to contribute it is more than welcome.

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