Email reminder, [e-mail] gives you a reminder in 1 day,

[panon]

Send an email to [e-mail] to receive a reminder in one day, you'll get an echo of your original email. d=day, h=hour, w=week, m=month

f.x. [e-mail]=2 days [e-mail]=1 hour [e-mail]=4 days and 1hour [e-mail]=72 hours.

[pluies_public]

Oh cool! That rings a bell! :)

I wrote and am operating a similar service at http://remaildr.com

The implementation is open source at https://github.com/Pluies/remaildr/

The main issue I've had with this side project is the availability that wasn't so great (as monitoring was conspicuously absent from the start and I never got around to actually setting it up, but I've got plans for it!) and it was eventually caught by spam due to Spamassassin misconfiguration on my part.

So I hope you have a good process for handling spam, and fingers crossed your code crashes less often than mine :)

[Jocund]

Neat idea. I currently use the snooze feature in the Mailbox app for reminders, so I'm not sure when I would use this.

[breakingcups]

I wonder how they deal with spoofing? Do they use the proper verification methods?

[hellbanner]

Cool. I've been wanting to build this, glad to see someone make it!

[motti]

Have you seen followup.cc?

[dylanz]

That's us!

We started out doing exactly that... send an email with a human readable date to our service, and we'll send you that email back. We also support recurring reminders ([e-mail]), sending attachments directly to evernote ([e-mail]), dropbox, drive, and other things: http://help.followup.cc/knowledge_base/topics/cheat-sheet

We do a lot more now, but that's still our core functionality. We also have a widely adopted Chrome Extension that also makes this a point-and-click operation, but I personally go with the text based approach.

[hellbanner]

Wish there was an example on their front page

[dylanz]

I hear you. We have had a ton of adoption of our Chrome Extension, which also has features like Open Tracking, Send Later and Salesforce Integration. When you click to create a reminder in the extension, we do populate the "bcc" field with the text based version of the email just to show users how it works.

That said, I agree that a simple explanation on the homepage would be useful for people who are just interested in the reminder piece.