Claude, by Anthropic
Reads the question. The source is looked up to prove it’s real.
Let me know when the S&P 500 goes above 8,000.
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S&P 500 (^GSPC) rises above 8,000
last 8,012.40, according to Yahoo Finance
igotyou is an iPhone app for the things you want to know the moment they happen. Say what you’re waiting for. It finds a source that can answer, watches it, and tells you once. Then it’s done.
Join the beta on TestFlightiPhone only. Opens Apple’s TestFlight app; install that first if you don’t have it.
What it does
Takes plain words
Type it the way you’d say it. If it’s vague, you get one question back and a best guess you can just accept.
Shows its work
Every watch names its source and the exact rule that settles it, so you can see a wrong one before it ever fires.
Tells you once
One notification when it happens. If the deadline passes first, one saying it didn’t. Nothing after that.
Lets you call it
Think it will or it won’t? Send a friend the link. They pick a side, and you both hear how it went.
How it works
A language model reads your question once, to work out where the answer will appear. After that, the source decides. Wikidata either lists a date or it doesn’t; Yahoo either shows the price above 8,000 or it doesn’t. Nothing fires on a hunch.
When
Your iPhonethe igotyou app
igotyou serverheyigotyou.app, on AWS
Outsidesources and messengers
You ask
You type what you’re waiting for.
The watch comes back as a card with its source and rule.
Turns the words into one source and one rule.
It only arms if the source exists and says “not yet” right now.
It waits
Nothing. The app doesn’t need to be open.
Checks every 30 minutes. Contracts that need reading, hourly.
A source that can’t be read never fires.
Wikidata, Yahoo Finance, ESPN, the FEC, the clock
For contracts, Google News goes first. A paid web search runs only when there’s a new headline.
It happens
One notification, naming the source that settled it.
The watch is finished.
Confirms before it fires.
Editable sources must say yes twice, a minute apart. A search result faces a second search trying to disprove it.
Apple Push and email
Carry the one message, to you and to anyone who took a side.
Arrows show which way things travel between neighbours. A double arrow means the server asks and gets an answer.
The server is one small Python program on a single machine at Amazon Web Services, behind Amazon’s CloudFront at heyigotyou.app. Your watches live there, next to the list of phones to notify. There is no separate database and no web app; the iPhone app is the whole product.
Some questions have no feed that can answer them: “when the Strait of Hormuz reopens.” For those, igotyou drafts a short contract with you first. It says what counts, who would report it, and when it stops mattering. You read it word for word before anything is armed.
Trying it
igotyou is in TestFlight. Tap the invitation link on your iPhone and install the app. There’s nothing to sign up for: opening it makes your phone the account. Sign in with Google or Apple only if you want email alerts too, or the same watches on another device.
What the app keeps, who else touches it, and how to have it deleted is on the privacy page.
Why it exists
Some news you want the day it lands, and you don’t want to read the news every day until then. Deane Barker put it best in Let Me Know: “Yell when Part 2 is out, and then never talk to me again.” His version needs every publisher to cooperate. igotyou reads the sources that already exist, so it doesn’t have to wait for them.