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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by pj_mukh on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @01:52PM (#12961005)
Can you make a version of this that just texts my mom that "I'm okay". That'd be perfect.

P.S: Yes I'm thirty. Y'all don't know Indian moms.

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by viraptor on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:10PM (#12963169)
I'm over thirty. This isn't Indian specific...
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by flukus on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @07:51PM (#12963701)
Also over 30, starting to want them to send me messages that they're ok.
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by martin-adams on Tuesday November 15, 2016 @06:17PM (#12963199)
You could write a cron job that uses Twilio. I like to optimise for success.
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by mfukar on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @07:29AM (#12966374)
"- Text me when you arrive"

5 minutes later..

"- I arrived. No assassins encountered."

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Ntrails on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @10:02AM (#12967462)
But mum, look, if anything has happened you'll get a bloody phone call. With this system my not texting just primes you to worry more, despite the far higher likelihood that I forgot than that I'm dead.

Literally the best result is that you start worrying I'm not ok a few hours before finding out for certain that I'm not. So let's assume success, and agree that in case of failure you're going to have a very bad day anyway and this doesn't really help mitigate anything at all.

(this does not work)

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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by mfukar on Wednesday November 16, 2016 @03:38PM (#12971250)
It never works.
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Re:Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud ... by Ntrails on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:07AM (#12975732)
Oh, I know. I know. I'll be damned if it's going to stop me trying though...
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