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Google suggests a person who suggested the idea, who was the first to implement it at a decent scale?

I'm reading deep work by cal newport and I'm trying to implement his advice on allocating times of unreliability for deeper style of work.

The problem is that I need to be reachable at any time by 2 persons, no matter what.

My first idea was to use SMS only but alas, my ISP shares my number with the whole world and I get one SMS message every other day, another option was to use an external software IM (e.g. Signal) and ask those persons to join the platform to reach me. This would work wonders for me since I would add a flashy notification to my desktop and achieve my peace of mind but one of the two is not really internet/computer savvy and I can't be sure he'll be able to signup/install AND operate a telephone app in the time of need.

For now top bet would be to have a webpage they can navigate to and press a big red button to summon me on normal IMs, do you have better ideas?

I keep finding myself on both the sides of this question

"I have money but no time, how do i find some bright college student to work on this small project for me?"

"I need 400€, How do i find a small project i can develop for and have no expectation of follow up or commitment"

I find hard to trust elance, upwrok and similar as it's either super-developer-guy or random-indian-guy, middle ways are buried behind the two extremes.

On the other side of the fence, as a programmer on those websites it takes a lot of time to build up reputation and network and it's easier to just get a job at McDonalds or similar (e.g. make a website and let someone else maintain it) for those 400€.

Something like university/hackerspace/open source facebook group with a barrier of entry to keep the quality but nothing as formal as a website