IsDueOn – Alert Service for What’er is due on..
If you are the kind who waits for the last day to pay your bills, you surely need an alert mechanism that will prompt you of pending bills few days in advance.
IsDueOn is a Mumbai based startup
that enables you to receive alerts for all things that are due on certain date!
The idea is pretty simple – you login to the system and add alerts for all the bills that you need to pay (tweak that and you can add alerts for events like birthdays/anniversaries too) – IsDueOn will send you email alerts (sms and twitter support in future).
At the core, I am not really sure there is a differentiation strong enough to ply on (sort of rememberthemilk?) – but if the team gets it right, they can for instance, tie up with event aggregators (i.e. offer their alert platform) or integrate with other platforms (like Google Calendar, or even electricity department!) to be more meaningful.
As far as product is concerned, it has a confusing registration process (unique, but is surely not intuitive enough) but overall, it does sound interesting – as it solves major painpoint for many of us.
Do give IsDueOn a dekho – how do you think can they make their service more useful?
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Not sure of the utiluty value at all.My Goog account does the same except maybe posting it on twitter ( but do you actually rely on twitter to pay your bills?)
“Aloso” get reminders for other important dates : didnt bother to register after that.
Hello Ashish thanks for reviewing Is Due On.
@Sri – thanks for pointing out the typo. Stupid mistake. It’s been corrected now.
I agree that there are tons of other tools/services for scheduling/alerts etc. There is Google Calendar, Remember the milk, Outlook, mobile phones and more! All these are generalised task managers. Is Due On concentrates on one specific type of task and that is paying the bills! Simplicity and ease of use is our USP. And if you register and add something, you will see the real thing when you receive the reminder email. It reminds you what is due and how much. A lot of other features are in the works like viewing your billing history so you know where you have been spending and how much, email reminders to multiple email ids and reminders via Twitter Direct Message. Why Twitter? So that you can get the alerts on your mobile, web or desktop and not just on email. if Twitter is already there why not use it? Developer API is also in works. And as Ashish mentioned, we can leverage the alerts platform for a lot of other services in future.
Is Due On is not the first of its kind. BillQ (www.mybillq.com) is already in this space. We are not competing with RememebrTheMilk, we are competing with the likes of BillQ.