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Show HN: CourtDateReminder.com - weekend project

courtdatereminder.com

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I would definitely enter my credit card information into that page.

Oops! My last update turned off the require ssl stuff. Fixed!

Why court dates and not doctor's appointments or "remember to buy milk" or whatever?

Because I was talking to a lawyer friend when the idea hit me. And because lawyers have money and are accustomed to spending it.

But you are right. The same idea could be used for anything. I'd probably need to tweak the pricing for remember the milk though. ;)

Just a simple weekend project-type app. Let me know what you think. Thanks!

Great idea. Consider making the notification reminders more flexible. So that the person can enter the weeks, days, hours, min themselves.

I considered that, but in the end I wanted the simplest interface possible. I know that most of us techies want to fiddle with the options, but I think most people would prefer some easy presets. It's definitely something that I can a/b test though.

Capturing credit card details? This should be done by the payment processor.

The credit card stuff is handled by stripe which I thought was a favorite around here. It uses their js API which strips out all cc info before passing it on to the website.

By the way, I love stripe! I've used authorize.net for a decade and it is amazing how slick they'be made charging a credit card.

People are upset that the information is being sent to your servers.

The cc info doesn't get sent to my (or herokus) servers. All I get is a stripe token that I send to stripe. They get the cc info.

Then you should make that explicit. It looks like I'm sending my credit card info to you, not stripe.

Stripe is unique in the fact that it sends it all through an ajax call directly to the stripe servers and returns a token for you to use for re-charging, bill cancelling, etc.

I just started using it for a few projects.

Why wouldn't they use ohdontforget to get a free reminder?

ohdontforget looks awesome. I hadn't heard of it before now...

I hate when that happens. However, with proper SEO, your site could still get a lot of visits. A quick search of Google Keywords shows that tens-of-thousands of people are searching for "court date" related items.

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