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by waitwaitwhay 4156 days ago
I actually use such a service at home sometimes. If I am supposed to take an important early flight, I use a service called "Personlig väckning" - Personal wakeup. Its been around forever. You call them, tell them that you want to be woken up at 04. They call you at that time. Its a bit safer option than the alarm clock for me. Because I actually have to answer the phone, say good morning and say my name to confirm they called the right number. One time they called me again because I didnt sound fullt awake.

Of course there a modern solutions to this problem but I kind of like the "human contact aspect" of it. It costs like $5.

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That's pretty neat, is it Eniros? Never knew it existed. I like the personal aspect of it. And on that topic I remember the recent app "Wakie" [0] that has a similar concept, maybe more towards the fun aspect.

[0] http://wakie.com/