HassleMe Because sometimes in life,
you just need to be nagged...
Frequently Asked Questions
- Something's not working — who do I tell?
- Please email etienne@mysociety.org with a
short description of what page you were on; what should have
happened; what actually happened; and roughly what time the
error occured. Thanks!
- What is this site?
- HassleMe is a tool which nags you. It nags you via email about things
you know you should be doing, but which you'll forget.
- How often does it nag?
- You set up a rough frequency, but it actually nags you at random times
within certain parameters. It keeps you on your toes.
- Why do you think it'll work?
- mySociety's developer Chris
Lightfoot built a little program called
Hasslebot, to encourage the
developers and volunteers at mySociety to post frequently to our blog, letting
people know what mySociety was up to. Despite the fact that it shouldn't work,
it did.
- If I give you my email address, will you send me spam?
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- No! We will only ever send you email when someone
(hopefully you) uses this website to set up a hassle (i.e. we'll send
you a "please confirm this hassle" email), and to carry out the actual
hassling (i.e. the regular nagging emails telling you to go the gym,
write to your mother, etc.). We won't sell your email address to
anyone, and we won't send you spam — ever.
- Who are you?
- This site was built by Chris Lightfoot and Etienne Pollard in two afternoons before
and after Christmas 2005 as a mySociety 'back of the envelope'
project. Chris is a full-time employee of mySociety and spends his
days running much more serious sites like WriteToThem.com. mySociety is a charitable
organisation which has grown out of the community of volunteers who
built sites like TheyWorkForYou.com. Our
primary mission is to build internet projects which give people
simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their
lives. Our first project was WriteToThem.com, where you can
write to any of your elected representatives, for free, and our more
recent sites include PledgeBank.com and Placeopedia.com.