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24 alternatives to I built a text-based birthday reminder app
I bought the birthdays.app domain a few years ago and decided to build a simple birthday app, just text message reminders. I had hacked together a duct-tape version for myself a couple years prior (using zapier + google sheets), and found it useful. It was a pain sifting through Facebook birthdays (90% irrelevant), and I found the text reminders simpler than a calendar. The app has been slowly growing since 2023, and is now up to 739 paying users (mostly on the $9/yr plan, with a few paying $3/yr). Earlier this year, I built a Google Calendar integration to automatically sync…
Birthdays.app is a text message reminder service for birthdays. Users log in via phone number and can input birthdays manually, by text, or by syncing their Google Calendar. The app sends SMS notifications on birthday… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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So now you can finally delete your Facebook account
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I built a simple service that sends SMS reminders for birthdays. Why? I kept missing birthdays, even with calendar apps. This single-purpose tool is simple and (so far) reliable. Since my texting inbox has a far better signal-to-noise ratio than email or calendar events, it ensures I never miss an important date. Facebook used to serve the same purpose, but it's a dying social graph for me.
2024 · birthdaytexts.com · its alternatives →
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A few years ago I bought the birthdays.app domain, and decided to make a birthday reminder app based only on text reminders—SMS in the US, WhatsApp outside the US. This year, I've focused on improving the app's importing options. Previously, it only supported adding friends manually or via text. Earlier in the year, I built a Google Calendar sync flow (using OAuth), and just recently, made a Chrome extension to import Facebook friends' birthdays. The flow is—install the extension, pull Facebook birthdays, select friends, then import to birthdays.app (using an import code from the web app).…
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Never forget another birthday, get text reminders
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hbd▲82Birthday reminders for the people you actually care about.
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I built this app primarily for my wife, who has tried many mainstream todo-list apps (OmniFocus, Things, and Todoist come to mind) over the years with little success. She isn't particularly interested in setting up a productivity system and the administrivia that goes with it. Even having to remember to look at an app once a day was far from ideal for her. This app is an attempt at a solution for anyone that fits this description, with a focus on alerting over organization. Here's how it works: you create a nudge that's set to trigger at a given date and time, and the app phones you, texts…
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Later Reminders▲150Super simple way to schedule reminders on your phone
2015 · laterapp.co · its alternatives →
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