“I've had an idea that might just be crazy enough to work: wake-up call buddies...”
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Ladybug Heather, Richard Walker, (jeff)isageek and 7 other people liked this
For whatever reason, I've tossed around the idea of starting a wakeup call service for several years now. But I just realized, what if instead of paying for a wake-up call service, you instead could sign up to be a wake-up call buddy, where you would get a wake-up call at X time from someone in exchange for giving someone else a wakeup call at Y time... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
that is a frigging AWESOME idea! lol. - TuesdayGotHerBracesOff
OMG! Great Idea! I'm in if you end up getting it going! This would have saved my butt at work...damn cell phone alarms....grrr - Morgan Haley
Here's an idea I've been throwing around for a while...having someone else in my bed to wake me up. Wait a second, you said instead of a pay service...drats! - Mark Wilson
East coasters could wake up west coasters!! West coasters that stay up too late could call east coasters that get up too early! - Orphan Spinster Librarian
@Mark ... you'd only want someone in your bed if you had to pay them... you should talk to a shrink about that - Sean Reiser
Tina: Great Idea... And with RSS feeds we can announce to the world when we're being woken up on FF ;) - Sean Reiser
Holy shit! That is an awesome idea Tina!!! - Monique
I'm not sure if this is me pooping all over the idea or not...but couldn't you set an alarm on your cell phone that uses your ring tone to achieve the same effect? - James Williams (willia4)
See, I'm thinking it would be almost like the couch surfing network, only instead of hosts and crashers it could be callees and callers. And if you wanted to get a call at 6a eastern and then make a call out to the left coast at 9a eastern, even better! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@James... part of tje benefit would be you'd engage in conversation to help you wake up - Sean Reiser
c'mon James.. the call is a better idea!! I'm up at 5am Eastern.. think of all the new friends I can have.. grouchy ones I could wake up!!! FTW! - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
And to your point, James, I find that nothing wakes me up like the sound of a ringing phone. And on the G1, the alarm tones are different than the ring tones, plus you can't turn up the alarm volume without turning up the ring-tone volume (and vice versa). - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
@James...much easier to ignore an inanimate ringtone...I'd get up out of bed if Tina called and told me to! ;) LOLOL - TuesdayGotHerBracesOff
@Tina - Sounds like the Android marketplace needs an AlarmThatUsesRingTones app. ;) - James Williams (willia4)
Oh, you could even have a passphrase that you have to say in order for the person to not call you back! I mean, who's going to be able to say "the eagle ate Snuffleupagus at midnight" when they're still asleep?!? - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
It would be cool if you could have it be a Facebook app (or use Google/Facebook Friend Connect) since people would probably prefer that friends wake them up - Costa Walcott
i'm up from 630am to 230am California time and would be willing to call/text during the waking hours. - Morgan Haley
Costa, it could be setup so that the user has to approve the person that's going to call them. And given the APIs it would be doable to have a setting where someone enters their FB/FF/Twitter details and whenever they setup a new wakeup time they could push the request to those services... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
wake me up before you go go! - (jeff)isageek
You can employ my cats - they are the most persistent and annoying wake up mechanism ever, and it's about time they started contributing to the household income. - Nadine Schaeffer
Nadine, perhaps your cats can train my cats: they're slugs who don't wake up until I've already had my coffee! - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)
*calls at 3am* ARISE!!! - Mo Kargas
