Title: I built this app primarily for my wife, who has tried many mainstream todo-list apps (OmniFocus, Things, and Todoist come to mind) over the years with little success. She isn&#x27;t particularly interested in setting up a productivity system and the administrivia that goes with it. Even having to remember to look at an app once a day was far from ideal for her. This app is an attempt at a solution for anyone that fits this description, with a focus on alerting over organization.<p>Here&#x27;s how it works: you create a nudge that&#x27;s set to trigger at a given date and time, and the app phones you, texts you, or emails you (or all three) at the right moment. Nudges can trigger on a schedule, so something like &quot;call me about monthly bills for the next month on the last day of every month&quot; is quite easy to set up. It also works well (sample size 1, admittedly) as a supplement to a more robust GTD system. I use Things for almost everything, but my most important reminders are set up as nudges.<p>I&#x27;ve worked on this on and off for the last month or so and I think it&#x27;s ready for a Show HN. There&#x27;s likely some rough edges in there so I wouldn&#x27;t use it for anything _critical_ just yet (let me know if you see anything that looks buggy!). I cut a lot of scope in order to release an initial version quickly; here&#x27;s a list of things I&#x27;m considering adding to the app in the near future:<p><pre><code>  - Implement something analogous to Pagerduty: create nudges that repeatedly nag you (with something like an escalation policy) until you acknowledge them
  - More notification channels: get nudges on Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, etc.
  - Families (or teams, possibly) share a namespace and can send nudges to each other
  - Nudges that collect a response: possibly for polls, a daily diary entry, or habit tracker
  - Incoming and outgoing webhooks
  - Snooze a nudge so it re-triggers in X minutes
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I work on distributed systems at my day job and haven&#x27;t done frontend and CRUD things in a long while now, so building this out was a nice change of pace. If anyone&#x27;s curious, the app is built with: Next.js (in static HTML mode) and Tailwind for the frontend, Go for the API server and background nudge loop, and SQLite (+Litestream) for persistence.<p>In any case, I&#x27;m looking for feedback from the HN community here: is this something you would use?<p>TL;DR: schedule reminders for yourself via phone call, text message, and&#x2F;or email<p>(PS: the free plan doesn&#x27;t allow call&#x2F;SMS nudges because I&#x27;m a bit wary of spam, but if you&#x27;d like to give this a shot and can&#x27;t [or don&#x27;t want to] subscribe to a paid plan at this point, send me an email at tim@nudges.fyi for a 1-month code)
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