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Show HN: Wakeup.io - Free Online Wake-up Call Service

wakeup.io

29 pointsthomasreggi19 comments

What an excellent way to spam people!

I just sent my friend 200+ wake up calls in 5 minutes. I really hope it calls him 200 times.

And it's free.

Apparently you get text messages letting you know you subscribed, and you can just reply stop to block them. He just yelled at me when he got 200 text messages in a row.

What about a land line?

EDIT: They don't do anything for land line users, just tried it on my land line phone. Great spam tool indeed :/

you can call the number to cancel or block the service, it's listed at https://wakeup.io

I know but that's after you know you've been signed up because you received a call at 1AM. How do they let land line users know they've been signed up?

How are the owners affording these costs? Sending calls and text messages isn't free obviously.

Or are they selling our information?

From the terms:

We use your personal information to operate, maintain, and improve our sites, products, and services.

That could be interpreted pretty loosely.

I tried to schedule a wake up for 12:50pm and it said I am getting a call at 12:50am. FML

Why is this better than setting up an alarm?

It would be good for people who don't have an alarm on their phone.

Can you set the wakeup call for 20 years ago?

I see there is no information about cost. Are there any plans to charge, and if so what would you charge?

Maybe a $25-$35 year plan would make sense depending on how often the wakeup calls are needed.

I'm guessing there might be advertising along with your call.

"Good morning! And be sure to check out new McDonald's value meal..."

$25-$35 a year for wakeup calls?! Did setting an alarm really get that hard?

It could be a nice spam tool.

What keeps people from entering someone else's number here?

Nothing apparently, I put my moms phone number in set at 4:20 PM. I'm so edgy.

Sounds like a prank machine to me

New idea: prank.io. You pay $1 and enter your friends number and it'll call him/she between 2am and 5am couple of times.

edit: friend who was pranked can pay $5 to discover who was the asshole.

And have it warn your friend it'll randomly call them in the middle of the night, and offer them the opportunity to pay $2 to call it off.

You can now cancel the wake-up calls by dialing 857-254-9253.

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