Apple built a cult of fan following over the years and things are no different with it annual World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) that will be help in mid year annually. Fans anticipate the event and prepare themselves to purchase a WWDC ticket that generally cost above $1000 with limited bookings, last year as soon as Apple announced the sale of tickets all of them got sold out in under 2 hours. People in east coast could not even test their luck at it as Apple officially announced a time of sale that did not even reach before the tickets were sold out. Looking at the crazy demand, mac apps developer Osin Prendiville developer a paid service that will intimate you as soon as the tickets go on sale.
The ticker is built in a way to ping Apple’s site continuously and get the information related to WWDC ticket sales, as soon as the news go live the app sends out an alert using SMS and/or Phone call to the registered users using the Twilio APIs. Last year Osin offered this service for free of cost but the service was hit by some unexpected bugs that crashed the plans, this year Osin is going for a paid service with a €1 upfront payment for SMS alert an extra €1 payment for phone call alert. He guarantees that his system will work this year but then again, a few unexpected errors are unavoidable and Osin promises a refund of the amount if the system fails to send out alerts before the tickets get sold out.