I made Please Call My Phone because I kept losing my phone in my room, and needed an easy way to find it. The site also has a "schedule" feature, so you could use it as an excuse to get out of a bad date or boring meeting.
PCMP Lesson 2: You Cant Trust Users
Over the weekend, I created a small app called PleaseCallMyPhone.com. It does just that- it calls your phone. I made it as a remedy for lost phones, however it is simple enough that you could use it for other things. It only took me a day to make, however I wanted to share a few quick lessons I learned from making it.
I created Please Call My Phone for me- I kept losing my phone, so I needed a way to find it. I decided to spruce it up, however, and throw it in my portfolio. After all, it couldn’t hurt.
Deciding to let anyone use it, however, meant having to cut a few features. I could no longer let people enter in their own messages, since I knew I’d end up sending out a large number of monotone text-to-speech “I’m going to kill you” messages to unsuspecting recipients.
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