Telling guests their room is ready
Setting this up takes about a minute. The slow part is not the software — it is deciding what to call yourself, because the handle ends up on a poster and cannot be changed afterwards.
What this actually looks like
Early arrivals wait in the lobby, in the bar, or on a walk round the block, and every one of them asks reception the same question. A channel answers it once: “Room 214 is ready — key at the desk.” The room number is the reference, so no name and no booking detail ever leaves the front desk.
How you would set it up
- Create a channel for the property and put its QR code on the key-card wallet, the lobby screen and the check-in email.
- Send room-ready lines through the day, and use the same channel for kitchen hours, the shuttle and the fire drill.
- Attach the breakfast times or the spa menu as a picture when it helps — an alert can carry one.
One handle, printed once, permanent
A channel lives at drop.top followed by its handle, and that address never changes. It cannot be edited after creation, because it ends up on a poster in a school entrance, on a festival gate and inside a QR code somebody has already laminated. The page behind it explains what the channel is, what it asks a phone for, and how to subscribe — so a stranger reading a poster can decide before installing anything. We generate the QR code for you, server-side, and it is never sent to a third-party image service.
A picture, a sound or a document, when words are not enough
A diverted bus route is a map. A boil-water notice is a paragraph of instructions people will re-read. An alert can carry an image, a sound file or a document alongside the text. Documents are stored exactly as written and re-rendered from a sanitised copy rather than being run as markup, so an attachment cannot turn into a script on somebody’s lock screen. The bytes are uploaded once and attached by reference, which keeps a send cheap however large the audience.
Nothing that could identify anybody
Subscribing needs no account, no email address and no phone number. What a subscription actually holds is a random identifier the app generated, a platform, an app version, a language and a time zone — coarse enough that hundreds of millions of people share one. There is no name, no contact detail, no advertising identifier and no location, and there is no export that would let an operator build one. You cannot leak a list you never collected.
Questions, answered plainly
Can I change my handle later?
No, and that is on purpose. It gets printed on posters and encoded into QR codes, and a handle that could change is a handle that turns somebody’s laminated sign into a dead link. Choose it the way you would choose a street name.
Can I attach a map or a PDF?
You can attach an image, a sound file or a document. A document is stored exactly as submitted and rendered from a sanitised copy, so it can never execute anything on a subscriber’s phone.
What do you collect about somebody who subscribes?
A random identifier the app generated, a push token, the platform, the app version, the language and the time zone. No name, no email address, no phone number, no location, and no advertising identifier. Subscribing needs no account at all.
Do subscribers need an account?
No. They install the app, subscribe to a handle, and that is the whole of it. Only the person running the channel signs up for anything.
Say it once. Every subscribed phone gets it.
Free up to 100 subscribers, no card to start, and the handle is yours permanently.
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