Just wanted to send a quick thank you to the contributers on this forum. Today, with the help of many around here, I launched ohdontforget.com! Ohdontforget.com allows US visitors to schedule sms text messages for a specific date and time, for free. Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on Rails and had a lot of fun along the way. I would really enjoy hearing your suggestions on improving the app! Thanks again, -stirman www.stirman.net www.ohdontforget.com -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
On 6/19/06, Jason Stirman <stirman@gmail.com> wrote:> Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for > improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on > Rails and had a lot of fun along the way. I would really enjoy hearing > your suggestions on improving the app!Site looks great, and works great, too. A couple of suggestions: * When you send a message the page just reloads, with no indication of whether it sent or not. A ''flash[:notice] = "Message sent!"'' might be nice. * This looks very ripe for abuse. I was able to send myself 3 messages in the space of about 10 seconds. What keeps someone from using this to spam/harrass someone else? You might consider some kind of throttle, or maybe a login system that requires you to verify a number is yours before you can send reminders to it. Looking good, though. I wish my own app was this far along! Good luck, -- Billy Mabray Smart Goat Web Design http://www.smartgoat.com
On 6/19/06, Jason Stirman <stirman@gmail.com> wrote:> Just wanted to send a quick thank you to the contributers on this forum. > Today, with the help of many around here, I launched ohdontforget.com! > > Ohdontforget.com allows US visitors to schedule sms text messages for a > specific date and time, for free. > > Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for > improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on > Rails and had a lot of fun along the way. I would really enjoy hearing > your suggestions on improving the app!The page looks good. I like the layout. The domain name is pretty cool too. Isn''t the potential for abuse off the charts though? -- James
Thanks for the kind comments..> Isn''t the potential for abuse off the charts though?Yes, but there are tons of pages/widgets that do the same thing. And for someone to abuse it, they need to know the specific cell phone number(s) they want to abuse. So, I plan on watching the traffic for a few days and seeing what comes of it. I will probably implement a user login, to check/delete queued messages, but in the "getting real" mindset, I wanted to get something out there quickly, that worked, and then consider the requests of the users. Thanks, stirman -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
It looks pretty cool and useful. How do you send the messages out? Using an SMS gateway, or using email or something else? For some reason I didn''t receive the two test messages I tried to send using now as the time. Bye, Guy. On 6/19/06, Jason Stirman <stirman@gmail.com> wrote:> Just wanted to send a quick thank you to the contributers on this forum. > Today, with the help of many around here, I launched ohdontforget.com! > > Ohdontforget.com allows US visitors to schedule sms text messages for a > specific date and time, for free. > > Although I have officially, launched, there is still room for > improvement. I used this project as a learning opportunity for Ruby on > Rails and had a lot of fun along the way. I would really enjoy hearing > your suggestions on improving the app! > > Thanks again, > -stirman > www.stirman.net > www.ohdontforget.com > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >-- Family management on rails: http://www.famundo.com - coming soon! My development related blog: http://devblog.famundo.com