Badger

Send recurring reminders to your friends and family

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Send recurring reminders to your friends and family

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Not sure what the advantages are of using this over something like Todoist, Wunderlist, Recurring Calendar Events, etc.

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10yr ago

@livejamie one advantage that I see is that the reminder is sent to the recipient as a text message. People look at their text messages far more than looking at messages in an app. It's also very simple to set the reminder. You just add the recipient you want to remind, write the message you want them to see, and then set the reminder.

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10yr ago

@kouroshbehnam Sure, but you can accomplish this with most calendar/reminder apps, no? I can do it with all 3 products I just mentioned.

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10yr ago

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@livejamie The reason there is no major player in the to-do list app space is because it is niche market that appeals to a certain kind of individual . Even Wunderlist (a company you bought) is in this mix albeit maybe the most successful. One of the issues in Silicon Valley is we make things way too complicated for the average person to use. We tend to not realize how easy we can use products because we are engineers and all of those products have that exact problem. The average person cannot figure out how to use them because it is too complex or too dense to navigate. Badger is designed for the average person to hit a few buttons, write a little text and setup reminders to other people. Nothing less, nothing more. All those products you mention have different core purposes than what we are doing. Calendars are primarily for events and you can use it to remind yourself. To do lists like Wunderlist are exactly for to do lists to check off and it does that well. Badger is purely for reminding you to do things. e.g. "take out the trash" weekly or "pay the rent" monthly.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@livejamie the barriers to entry are much higher with those specific products to remind people to do things. I'm sure you can "hack" the products to do it, but it isn't easy thus most people not using those products for that. Like I said earlier, technically savvy people like yourself find Wunderlist useful and easy to use, but the average person does not.

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10yr ago

I like the idea of an app that manages automated sms reminders but not sure about the push notification as that requires them to also download the app

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10yr ago

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Maker

@davidiwanow I don't understand what you are saying. Can you explain further please?

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10yr ago

@thomaspage so I see the platform as a SMS assistant for me that doesn't require the other party who might not have an advanced phone to download an app

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10yr ago

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Maker

@davidiwanow Reminders are sent as SMS right now whether you are reminding others or yourself. I'm still not 100% sure if that answers your question?

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10yr ago

By the looks of the placeholder names they have, I'm going to take a wild guess and say the used the Ink UI Kit :) Will give this app a spin!

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10yr ago

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Maker

@royherma Great!! Let us know what you think of it, thanks!

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10yr ago

Why in a globalised world only make this available in the US? Is there a reason? Thx

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10yr ago

@a12rj i know it often comes down to cost but yes this annoys me a heap.... it also limits the potential reach...

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10yr ago

@a12rj yep no value to me if just iOS... but hey it makes sense to ignore 80% of the potential mobile audience doesn't it?

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10yr ago

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Maker

@a12rj We have plans to go international ASAP. However, in the beginning we needed to keep things as simple as possible to make a stable product so we limited things to the US.

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10yr ago

Badger

Maker

@davidiwanow @a12rj It is more expensive to do texts abroad, however, that isn't the reason we haven't done that yet. It's more to do with creating more variables that can go wrong, when we just wanted to nail the 1st iteration of the product.

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10yr ago

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Maker

@davidiwanow @a12rj We're not ignoring the majority of the market. We laid out plans from the beginning and when you are a small startup you can't do everything. We'll have the android out in June.

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10yr ago

This app is pretty simple to use. I really like how the recipient of the reminder receives the reminder as a text message. Everyone checks their sms.

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10yr ago

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Maker

The most common use cases for the app are: 1) Reminding people to take their medicine (daily) 2) taking out the trash (weekly) and 3) paying bills of some form (monthly). e.g. paying the rent or mortgage. Our goal is to build a utility.

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10yr ago