Setup your own Personal Reminder Engine for free !!!

How do I setup a Personal reminder engine for free ? How does it remember even simple texts across multiple channels (fb, sms, insta, LinkedIn, etc.)

Well, that persona is me :D

How many times have you heard (or said) something like this?

• “Hey… I texted you two weeks ago about the meet-up plan.”
• “I did text you the grocery list.” (Mostly from my wife 😅)
• “Dad, I thought you’d remember my science fair.” (From my daughter 💙)

Missed birthdays, forgotten milestones, and those precious moments you wish you’d remembered in time.

Honestly, I face this more often than I’d like to admit.

That got me thinking — why can’t there be a single channel I can fully manage and trust to remember things for me?

With 13+ years of experience in Data Science, IoT, and Observability, I decided to use this holiday break to build a simple solution for a very human problem.

So I built an omni-channel, AI powered memory-based reminder engine:

• Powered by Kafka for real-time reliable messaging
• With transactional evidence and modularized to extend integrations in the future

This journey led me to the @Aiven Free Kafka Tier for Apache Kafka, which made it incredibly easy to develop and deploy the solution right from my laptop.

At the moment, it’s integrated with my SMS and WhatsApp profile. But the architecture is fully scalable — enabling external users, in the future, to manage their own omni-channel, memory-based reminder engines.

High level architecture of the solution

Would love to hear your thoughts or experiences in the comments. Based on the request, I would be glad to write next set of parts on how I implemented this.

Solution’s next steps: Mithunam will be able to respond to texts, remind you automatically, interactive personal assistant, etc.

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PS: I am back to writing blogs after long time and hence request your honest feedback on comments or you can IM me personally as well.