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Comment by SHOwnsYou | Hacker News Reader

Make it like awesomereminders.com and people get called and bitched at until they finish their project...

This would need to include the voice of the drill instructor from Full Metal Jacket. Or allow users to pick a voice that best suits them. I can only imagine a call like this: "What, you incompetent maggot? You couldn't finish that code because an episode of Battlestar Galactica came on.... Turn off that boob tube and start writing some code, you filthy useless piece of shit"

Holy shit that's a good idea. The only reason I broke up with my ex is that whenever I went into my local bar (every day), the girl would ask me

"Did you do anything about it yet?" "Did you do anything about it yet?" "Did you do anything about it yet?"

I bet getting a call every day would work extremely well, bringing the same dread as a call from a bill collector with a far more straightforward path to mitigation.

That's a great idea. Do you have any more info about the technical side of awesomereminders?

I am pretty sure he pays people to go through a list of numbers and call them to tell them how awesome they are.

At 1 call per minute (which I figure is pretty liberal for a "Hey, have you finished your shit yet?") a single person can clear 400 people per day easily.

But of course if you paid someone $10/hr to call people, your sweet spot for break even is somewhere around 350 customers before you hire someone.

paid prank calls for the masochists. could be a BIIIIIIIG success.

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