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Looks good.

How does it work? What tool is being used to send the text message? And why text message over email or other online notification?

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It's just twilio for texts plus django and a cronjob. Text messages are the use case I wanted most for myself, so I just did that first. I'll add email/twitter/etc if the simple version gets a good enough response to warrant it

Yeah, email would be cool for a lot of international "customers" as text messaging doesn't work in a bunch of European countries with twilio.

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