# Oh, Don't Forget... launches!

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [June 19, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812 "2006-06-19T16:52:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweatje)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812/1 "2006-06-19T16:52:21Z")

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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](http://ohdontforget.com)!

[Ohdontforget.com](http://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](http://www.stirman.net)

> **[Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.](https://www.ohdontforget.com/)**
>
> A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It's the all-in-one workspace for you and your team

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**Author:** ![sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweatje)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812/2 "2006-06-19T17:38:22Z")

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On 6/19/06, Jason S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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](http://ohdontforget.com)!
> 
> [Ohdontforget.com](http://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

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**Author:** ![sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweatje)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812/3 "2006-06-19T17:35:10Z")

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On 6/19/06, Jason S. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) 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 M.  
Smart Goat Web Design  
[http://www.smartgoat.com](http://www.smartgoat.com)

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**Author:** ![sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweatje)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2006, 6:02pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812/4 "2006-06-19T18:02:30Z")

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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

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**Author:** ![sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/ad7895/32.png) [@sweatje](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/sweatje)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2006, 8:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/oh-dont-forget-launches/63812/5 "2006-06-20T20:05:05Z")

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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.