A new startup that called Wakerupper that offered free Web-based wake-up call service has launched recently. The service that they rendered enables a user to reliably receive a call for the important task reminder or appointment that scheduled. To use the service, a user just simply need to input the date and time, email address as well as the cell phone number. However, Wakerupper restricts the maximum 140-character per message for the users. What set them apart is the service offered is free, works almost with any phone, and they have the technology, a kind of text-to-speech that read the message to a user when receive the telephone reminder.

I believed that Wakerupper sure this type of business model couldn’t afford to wait since the technology they offered was not that technically difficult to develop. Still, there are many startups on the Web which their business models unnervingly similar to Wakerupper. Currently, the service only available in the U.S. and Canada, and being in the private beta phase. In other words, potential users need to request a beta account in order to use their service. My sense is that when Wakerupper open to public in the near future, there will be two different version of accounts offered, one is the free one and the other is the paid premium version.