Head to head, in bed: Snoozester and Sleep.FM

I just saw today two companies that help you wake up. Stay with me, here.

First up: The dumbest idea of the year, Snoozester. You pay a monthly fee or buy credits, and then the system will call your phone and wake you up. That's right: Your phone. That device you keep by the bed. The one with an alarm clock built in to it.

Sleep.FM: Wake me when it's over

In Snoozester's defense, it will try harder to wake you up that your phone will: There's an option that will force you to indicate you're awake by pressing a specific key. It can also send you appointment reminders.

Next: Sleep.FM, the social network of sleep. Say what? You tell it when you want to get up, and your friends can send you audible greetings for alarm tones. No friends? It's still a nice Web-based alarm clock, which, as readers noted when I crowned Webware's Official Alarm Clock, is a pretty flagrant waste of energy.

Seen at: TechCrunch 40 event.

[spoceta]

Wake up calls

I like your comments; glad you don't need the wake up call: I blogged about the issue at:
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/blogs/stevepocetamd/need-a-wake-up-call--7524
Thanks.

[snoozester]

snoozester

Hey Rafe,

Thanks for checking us out at tc40 and writing the review. I guess any publicity is good publicity!
Anyway, just wanted let your readers know that they can try out the service at Snoozester.com and judge for themselves. Your readers get 10 free credits when they sign up to test drive the service.
For our wake up call service, we have incorporated small features that make the service ideal for people who have trouble getting out of bed. To give some context (although may not seem so impressive), to date we have delivered over 500,000 calls to the Snoozester community and we have over 800 regularly paying members. So, even though the idea may seem simplistic in concept, I think we have a well executed implementation of it that people actually love to use.

[Bobitizer]

wake up service

I use this to wake me up: http://onlineclock.net