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IoQS reminds the user every morning to weight themselves and message the result to the service

You're quickly going to burn your users out with incessant notifications. They'll actually train themselves to ignore the notifications until eventually uninstalling your app out of frustration. How will you avoid this?

Definately can be a problem. What I've found helps is encouraging new users to actually not set too many reminders, to avoid burnoit when novelty wears off. Secondly is to allow individual sets notifications to be disabled easily to avoid removing/ disusing the whole app. Thanks for question!

Edit: also, the service allows a default 'no reply' to be set, so if the reminder is ignored, there is still data entered. For the weight example, the default could be the previous days weight. This makes ignoring a reminder potentially into a positive, time saving behaviour for the user.

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