About
Untimely.app is a platform that allows users to schedule randomly recurring events and reminders to bring spontaneity into their daily routines. By scheduling unexpected prompts for various activities such as sending appreciation messages to team members, reaching out to old friends, or random activity reminders (like doing push-ups), Untimely helps users break away from strict schedules that can lead to pleasant surprises and increased engagement in everyday tasks.
Untimely includes features such as random reminders, customizable frequency and notifications through diverse channels like email, SMS, Slack and Zapier. Users can schedule questions, text messages, knowledge, shoutouts, gratitude.in efforts to keep up with family and friends.
How they use Cloudflare
The Untimely app is built on the Next.js framework, with their front-end hosted and deployed through Cloudflare Pages. To improve costs and performance, Cloudflare Workers is their go-to for all serverless functions, while Workers KV helps store and manage quick configurations and settings for users.
The Untimely team uses Cloudflare’s D1 serverless database to store basic relational data of users, events, subscriptions, rules and scheduling info. The team also leverages R2 Object Storage to store a variety of unstructured data like application assets, analytics and logs.
Given the demands of speed and high performance, serverless makes it easy for the Untimely to scale with a global reach. With a full tech stack under one roof, the Untimely team doesn’t have to worry about layering in other front-end development providers or integrating with another serverless vendor for their backend services.
Why Cloudflare?
“When working on a side project, it’s always important to consider cost. If you're not careful, you can rack up a huge bill. On a previous project, our team spent over $100K in the first month using another cloud provider. We decided to put Cloudflare in front of the application and reduced our bill to under $1K. That’s a 100X cost decrease, thanks to Cloudflare’s cost-effective Developer Platform.”
