This weekend we quietly launched Due This Week dot com. Due This Week is a nifty little (and not to mention free) web app that sends you reminders by email of upcoming bills.
I'm something of a minimalist so I hated the idea of filling my iCal with my bill's due dates. I'd leave myself sticky notes about the place, but they usually disappear before they remind me of what I needed to pay and when. When I need to make notes for myself I usually send them in an email to myself seeing as I read my email everyday, unlike my calendar or the post-it note stuck to the bottom of my shoe.
The idea of Due This Week was to automate that completely as well as being able to get the reminders early enough to act on them.
Due This Week sends you a customised email a set number of days before the bill is due (1, 2, 3, 5, 7 or 10 days before) reminding you that your bill "XYZ" is due in 3 days (on the 12th).
One thing that made this project a little different to work on is that I didn't want people to have to sign-up or log-in to create reminders but of course I wanted some privacy and protection in place. When you create a new reminder, whether it's your 1st or 101st you just give it the email address and details of the reminder. The catch is that it won't send you the reminder unless you activate it and you can only activate it by clicking on a unique link we send to your email address.
If it's the first reminder you've created we'll also setup an account for you so that you can edit or delete your reminders. But you still won't need to log-in to create a 2nd, 3rd, 4th (and so on...) reminder because we have the "activation link" protection in place.
This was a fun project to work on, and now it's done I hope to never be late on that blasted credit card bill again! Due This Week is free and super easy to use, give it a try and never miss a due date again!
www.duethisweek.com
