Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to The Bike Shed - 61: I'm Not Telling You My Birthday
"Send me an email every year for my birthday" is easy?
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Bike Shed - 61: I'm Not Telling You My Birthday launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Never lose touch with your friends, a simple personal CRM
2018 · its alternatives →
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Birthday prank: send an automatic Slack message, hourly.
2019 · its alternatives →
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2014 · gettimestamp.com · its alternatives →
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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…
2025 · birthdays.app · its alternatives →
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Email reminders about the people and events that matter
2021 · its alternatives →
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