RingIt - Never lose your phone again
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RingIt lets trusted friends or family make your device ring loudly for 30 seconds, even if it’s on silent.
It’s fully cross-platform (iPhone ↔ Android), so no logging into Find My, no web portal, no ecosystem lock-in. Just tap, ring, find.
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MultiDrive
@gaetan_vdb I really like yout story! So sincere and so relatable. Great idea!
Chatscout by Zevi
@gaetan_vdb This is brilliant. Finally a way to find my phone without logging into some account or digging through menus.
@gaetan_vdb @alexandre_derekk Yes! Easy way.
@gaetan_vdb @alexandre_derekk Amazing.
@gaetan_vdb @alexandre_derekk @vasyl_yeremeiev22 Exactly.
Swytchcode
Awesome idea! Does it need wifi/mobile internet?
RingIt
@chilarai Thank you! Yes the phone needs to be connected to the internet. How it works is we send a notification to the phone. On apple we send a Critical Alert and on Android we use the alarm sound channel, so even if the phone is on silent or DnD mode, it will make a sound. But the phone needs to be able to receive the notification.
Swytchcode
@gaetan_vdb great work! A real utility app
Hatable
This looks really interesting!
A few questions:
1. What's been the biggest challenge in building this?
2. How do you see this evolving over the next year?
3. What feedback have you gotten from early users?
Excited to see where this goes! 🚀
RingIt
@shardul_lavekar Thank you!
Honestly the biggest challenge was getting Apple’s Critical Alerts approved, we waited almost 50 days. And since I’m mainly a web dev (with only one tiny Flutter app from years ago), jumping back into Flutter for a full product was definitely a learning curve, but a fun one.
The core of the app will always stay free. Quickly ringing your partner or someone you’re around a lot shouldn’t cost anything. But we do have server/db/email provider costs, so we’ll introduce a small premium plan that unlocks extra ways to trigger a ring — Alexa, Google Home, Siri, lock screen widgets, home screen widgets, etc.
We launched on r/SideProject last week and the feedback was super motivating. People really understood the idea and actually had real use cases for it. Right now we’re working through the small bits of feedback we got — polishing things like letting you rename your device after onboarding — and once that’s done, we’re jumping into the integrations.
Hatable
@gaetan_vdb nice, all the best!
Snowglobe
This is really smart! The cross-platform thing is huge - so many people have mixed iPhone/Android households. Congrats on the launch!
Oh man, RingIt is genius! My family’s always losing their phones on silent—this lets me ping their devices in seconds, no hoops to jump through. As someone who’s constantly misplacing my own phone, this is a godsend. Quick q: How do you make sure the ring’s loud enough to hear in a noisy house?
Oh my god, I've been seriously hoping someone would build a tool that let me call my phone from my mac or iPad. GENIUS SIR!
The concept makes a lot of sense. It feels like something people will actually use instead of just trying once and forgetting.
Great idea! You could also add a feature to automatically enable speakerphone — it would be really helpful for elderly parents who might have trouble hearing or forget how to turn it on.