Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterday's self.

Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by ether on Thursday June 14, 2012 @01:20PM (#4112425)

Awesome! Thanks for the feedback! Yes I used Twilio API. I went to a hackathon last weekend and built this using Twilio API, and it was cool so I decided to refine it some more and release it.

1. Yeah currently it's alarm for hours and minutes "from now" rather than actual time, because you know, time zone conversion thing is really annoying and takes up too much time. But you're right I gotta make that more clear.

2. Yeah I'm concerned about that too. I think I might actually think about doing it that way too. Thanks for the idea!

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by forgingahead on Thursday June 14, 2012 @01:58PM (#4112651)

Re: 1, you can set it in the database as a UTC record and then have it visually change in the HTML (using javascript) with several options.

Eg: If I select 7am on 6/15 from your dropdown list, you render some inline HTML that shows some/all of the following:

"7am EST" "4am PST" "6am CST"

etc

Timezones are definitely tricky, but if you search StackOverflow or other sites there might be some good recommended approaches.

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by jhare on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:06PM (#4112692)

I've worked in a lot of time/timezone related apps and Moment (Javascript) has treated me the best so far.

http://momentjs.com/

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by smcguinness on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:14PM (#4112730)

http://www.datejs.com/ has been my goto js lib for handling frontend date/time.

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by jefflinwood on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:42PM (#4112851)

Was it the XHack hackathon?

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by ether on Thursday June 14, 2012 @02:59PM (#4112940)

Yes. By the way XHack hackathon was really awesome. Best host ever.

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by jefflinwood on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:01PM (#4112951)

Cool! I showed off ViaMeme there

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by ether on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:17PM (#4113033)

Oh cool man. This was originally Talk To The Future. I just refined the UI and got a new domain.

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Re:Show HN: WakeMyself. Get a wakeup call from your yesterda... by jefflinwood on Thursday June 14, 2012 @03:22PM (#4113066)

I figured as much when I saw it :)

Congratulations on the win!

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