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Would you/your company be interested in a Mincha reminder and check-in system?

Would be nice but only if it's free
11 (78.6%)
Yes, we would be happy to pay a monthly fee of maximum $10
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Yes, we would be happy to pay a monthly fee of maximum $20
0 (0%)
Yes, we would be happy to pay a monthly fee of maximum $25
1 (7.1%)
No thanks, we manage very well without a "system" or we use a "traditional" system
1 (7.1%)

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Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« on: November 09, 2017, 12:24:15 PM »
We have a minyan mincha in our office complex daily however since we are tight minyan we need to send out a reminder daily and get check-ins to see and notify if there's a minyan Today

looking for a simple solution, tried gcal but issue is that need to re-create the event everyday since repeat events only send out the invitation once.

Best would be sort of like a text messaging system where everyone gets a text will you participate in mincha Today? and they can reply Y/N if there's 10 Y everyone gets a message mincha confirmed for today....

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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #1 on: November 09, 2017, 12:55:09 PM »
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #2 on: November 09, 2017, 01:00:14 PM »
He wants it automated and not to have to count it up every day.

You can probably have a recurring pole in Slack that alert every day and people could click yes or no. But that would require everyone to download Slack...
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #3 on: November 09, 2017, 01:01:19 PM »
We have a minyan mincha in our office complex daily however since we are tight minyan we need to send out a reminder daily and get check-ins to see and notify if there's a minyan Today

looking for a simple solution, tried gcal but issue is that need to re-create the event everyday since repeat events only send out the invitation once.

Best would be sort of like a text messaging system where everyone gets a text will you participate in mincha Today? and they can reply Y/N if there's 10 Y everyone gets a message mincha confirmed for today....

TIA
Zapier can send recurring emails, or you could have IFTTT send emails for recurring gcal events
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #4 on: November 09, 2017, 01:06:30 PM »
I think Zapier can send texts too. You may be able to rig something up where responses are sent to a google spreadsheet, and when you have 10, another text is sent out to everyone confirming it.
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2017, 03:45:20 PM »
I think Zapier can send texts too. You may be able to rig something up where responses are sent to a google spreadsheet, and when you have 10, another text is sent out to everyone confirming it.

Im a noob to this part of the forum so pardon my ignorance. I am looking to do the same thing for my mincha minyan, can you elaborate a little on your idea please?
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2017, 05:07:33 PM »
Going to do this on Twilio


1) Allow admin to add members (north american mobile numbers) (no need for option of sms signup)

2) Every day Monday-thursday at 11:00AM EST each recipient should receive a sms like:
Will you be participating in today's Mincha ? reply YES or NO

3) At 12:30Pm IF there was not yet 10 respondents with YES send a message: We now have X responders (where x is the number of yes received) Please respond with YES if you will join Today

4) At 12:45 PM

*IF* there were 10  respondents with *YES* = Send a message to all members saying: Mincha Today is confirmed for 1:00PM
*IF* there were *NOT*  10 respondents with *YES* Send a message to all members saying: Unfortunately Today's MIncha is cancelled.
« Last Edit: November 13, 2017, 05:32:58 PM by Alexsei »
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2017, 07:56:34 PM »
Im a noob to this part of the forum so pardon my ignorance. I am looking to do the same thing for my mincha minyan, can you elaborate a little on your idea please?
thanks
Bearing in mind that I've never done SMS with zapier... here's a good place to start: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/210/send-a-reminder-sms-before-google-calendar-events-start/

Basically you create an account with zapier, and then connect it to your google calendar. Then you set up a "zap", that for every calendar event that matches certain criteria, send an SMS to whoever you tell it to.
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2017, 08:17:14 PM »
Bearing in mind that I've never done SMS with zapier... here's a good place to start: https://zapier.com/zapbook/zaps/210/send-a-reminder-sms-before-google-calendar-events-start/

Basically you create an account with zapier, and then connect it to your google calendar. Then you set up a "zap", that for every calendar event that matches certain criteria, send an SMS to whoever you tell it to.
This won't tell the congregants whether there's confirmed minyan
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2017, 08:22:47 PM »
This won't tell the congregants whether there's confirmed minyan
Right. Now theoretically (I haven't tried this to know if it works) you could have a second "zap" which added people to a google spreadsheet when they reply, and a third "zap" which, whenever that google spreadsheet is updated, checks if there are ten entries and then sends out another SMS to everyone.

You're kind of reinventing the wheel, though, so if something like twilio (posted above but I don't know anything about it) can do that, you may be better off.
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2017, 09:41:08 AM »
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2017, 05:56:36 PM »
Going to do this on Twilio


1) Allow admin to add members (north american mobile numbers) (no need for option of sms signup)

2) Every day Monday-thursday at 11:00AM EST each recipient should receive a sms like:
Will you be participating in today's Mincha ? reply YES or NO

3) At 12:30Pm IF there was not yet 10 respondents with YES send a message: We now have X responders (where x is the number of yes received) Please respond with YES if you will join Today

4) At 12:45 PM

*IF* there were 10  respondents with *YES* = Send a message to all members saying: Mincha Today is confirmed for 1:00PM
*IF* there were *NOT*  10 respondents with *YES* Send a message to all members saying: Unfortunately Today's MIncha is cancelled.

My MinchaMinder™ system is live!
« Last Edit: November 15, 2017, 06:24:54 PM by Alexsei »
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2017, 06:06:41 PM »
Cool. Tomorrow will be first try? Let us know how it goes!

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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2017, 06:21:25 PM »
My MikvahMinder™ system is live!
You need 10 people to go to the Mikvah?
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #14 on: November 15, 2017, 06:25:29 PM »
You need 10 people to go to the Mikvah?

lol my mistake it was supposed to be MinchaMinder™ MikvahMinder is this http://www.mikvahminder.com/
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #15 on: November 15, 2017, 06:27:21 PM »
lol my mistake it was supposed to be MinchaMinder™ MikvahMinder is this http://www.mikvahminder.com/
Figured, was trying to have some fun rather than just pointing out the mistake :)
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #16 on: November 15, 2017, 06:50:52 PM »
My MinchaMinder™ system is live!
Now you can put together a full tutorial (hosted on MinchaMinder.com with a Donate button :) ) so others (like @jmz above) can utilize your logics for their Minyanim.

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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #17 on: November 15, 2017, 07:22:23 PM »
I've spent the last day reading all about twilio and how to use it and code stuff and youve done it already?! Geez what a noob I am.


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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #18 on: November 15, 2017, 07:30:38 PM »
I've spent the last day reading all about twilio and how to use it and code stuff and youve done it already?! Geez what a noob I am.
Don't worry i didn't do it myself i hired someone secondly it is not built on twilio it's php it just utilizes twilio as the sms provider
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Re: Mincha Reminder & Check In System
« Reply #19 on: November 15, 2017, 07:52:34 PM »
Don't worry i didn't do it myself i hired someone secondly it is not built on twilio it's php it just utilizes twilio as the sms provider
Good to know.
Hiring someone was my next step.
Figured it can't be too much