From a design perspective it might be a good idea to get a favicon and change the title of the website to something a little less generic.
I know this is fairly new, but it would be cool to include some sort of contact info, maybe get facebook/gmail integration.
Also maybe add an option for a time (ie between 6-8pm), I know you wanna keep it random (in terms of which day of the week or month) but if I set it for someone in Europe, and it reminds me at a time when Europe is probably asleep it's not very helpful.
Other than that I like the bare-bones feel, it's clean and hopefully works!
Just a couple quibbles, overall cool implementation of idea.
Thanks for the feedback. Favicon and title have been added.
- What sort of contact info are you thinking of? I was thinking of adding tag support (and filtering) but I assume you mean more like phone # / email?
- Facebook/gmail integration is next on my to-dos. Really depends on how much traction I get with this version.
- I like your timezone ideas. In general, I think my frequency selection is lacking.
I'm starting to think that posting this at 11:45 may not have been the best way to go about this. That isn't meant to diminish the feedback that I've goten - just a realization that more people may be on the site during the day and the time component of my posts ranking will go down before others have a chance to vote on it.
Idea : Build script that determines best performing hackernews posts by time of day and day of week.
Good point. I was aiming for some randomness in terms of when I reach out to people. If I call my grandma every Monday, she freaks out if I miss a Monday. Penguit will vary the actual "reminder" within the scope of the timeframe that you've given.
From a design perspective it might be a good idea to get a favicon and change the title of the website to something a little less generic.
I know this is fairly new, but it would be cool to include some sort of contact info, maybe get facebook/gmail integration. Also maybe add an option for a time (ie between 6-8pm), I know you wanna keep it random (in terms of which day of the week or month) but if I set it for someone in Europe, and it reminds me at a time when Europe is probably asleep it's not very helpful.
Other than that I like the bare-bones feel, it's clean and hopefully works!
Just a couple quibbles, overall cool implementation of idea.