Text Reminder

Inspiration

Reminders are useful, but sometimes reminder apps are annoying. SMS messages are often configured to be hard to miss, and don't even require a smartphone.

What it does

There is a webpage that allows for setting reminders. At the scheduled time, the provided message is sent to the provided phone number.

How we built it

• Python code to read reminders from the filesystem, wait until the scheduled time, and send the reminders with the twilio API
• Python code to accept requests from the server and write the reminders to the filesystem
• Webpage to provide an interface

Challenges we ran into

• Dealing with human time units
• Integrating the components together perfectly

Possible improvements

• Authentication, so users can only schedule reminders for their own phones
• Ability to edit or delete existing reminders
• Proper inter-process communication (or just one process) rather than having to constantly kill/restart after writing a json file

Built With

• html
• javascript
• python
• twilio
• wsgi