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Product: Alarm Clock: Fail-Safe
Please wake me up...   (0)  [vote for, against]
An alarm app for smartphones and tablets

This is a simple alarm app with a unique function... after 3 snoozes, or a few minutes of alarm activity with no response, it sends a pre-configured text message to pre-selected contacts saying something along the lines of "It appears I've slept through my alarm, would you be so kind as to wake me up?"
-- 21 Quest, Oct 27 2011

The antithesis of this idea... http://www.halfbake..._20let_20me_20sleep
[normzone, Oct 27 2011]

Related concept: Alica Wang's tyrant alarm clock http://joshspear.co...g-sleep-inventions/
"steals your mobile phone and makes random calls every three minutes until you get up." [jutta, Nov 07 2011]

Close, but no cigar https://market.andr...HRBbGFybUxpdGUiXQ..
This seems pretty close, but it's more of an office assistant kind of thing than a sleep alarm. My idea is an app that is a full-featured alarm, with texting as an add-on snooze function. [21 Quest, Nov 08 2011]

Somebody did it! http://www.wakie.com
My idea has made it to the real world, although with no credit given to me... [21 Quest, Jan 10 2015]

The Good Fairy Jenny has already loaded my iPad with a number of ingeniously annoying wake-up apps. This one would spread the misery to my friends and relatives, which, naturally, I approve of. I already have somebody in mind. In fact, if this app becomes available, I may start deliberately oversleeping.
-- Alterother, Oct 27 2011


// my friends and relatives, which, naturally, I approve of// Well, it's natural to approve of your friends, but if you approve of your relatives you're a lucky man.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Oct 27 2011


syntax error >>> redo from start (!!!)
-- Alterother, Oct 27 2011


Nonono, the syntax error was Maxwell's. For his interpretation to be accurate, you would have to have said "who, naturally, I approve of."
-- 21 Quest, Oct 28 2011


I know, I just can't resist a good Discworld reference.
-- Alterother, Oct 28 2011


Ah... I am not familiar with Discworld.
-- 21 Quest, Oct 28 2011


shame on you!
-- po, Oct 28 2011


You have some reading to catch up on.
-- normzone, Jan 11 2015


[21Q], you should email wakie.com. Not that it'll do you any good, but they might at least say "hi" and be gracious.
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Jan 11 2015


I may try, using Google's App Inventor, creating a demo alarm app along these lines. I would have it respond to an excessive delay in my shutting off an alarm by selecting any "co-worker" from my contacts and text them a notification of my death.

I would probably want to disable this app if/when I actually succeed in landing a job.
-- lurch, Jan 11 2015


If all your friends were also asleep, would the 'wake-up' message cascade to their friends?
-- hippo, Jan 12 2015


I really like that cascade function idea.
-- 21 Quest, Jan 12 2015



random, halfbakery