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Hey, hunters! Some time ago, I decided to delete my Facebook account. I exported my data, wrote a farewell post, and started thinking of what else I need to carry with me. Then I immediately realized that there's one feature that I'll be missing the most — birthdays reminders. So I decided to make a free app that will remind you about your friends' birthdays. I got inspired by my previous project — Diary Email, private journal app that you write to using email, so I decided to explore the further the email topic. Please welcome, Birthdays Reminder! It's a simple web app that reminds you of your friends' birthdays via email. After sign up you set up the reminder time and your timezone and at the day when a friend has a birthday, we'll send you an email at the specified time. You can add birthdays manually or import data from Facebook. The project maintenance costs me literally pennies, so I set to keep it alive forever. If you like the product and want to support me, you can buy me a coffee

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6yr ago

Sasha Koss

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Fun fact! It took me 5 days from idea to implementation. You can see my journey here: https://twitter.com/kossnocorp/s...

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6yr ago

hitesh saini

@kossnocorp Having this app as chrome extension would be much greater. As birthdays are constant dates so just one time import is required, No need of active internet connection for reminder after that. I'm not sure if you have open sourced this project but i would like to work on its chrome extension implementation. Thoughts?

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6yr ago

Sasha Koss

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Honestly, I'm not sure. I'm not a big fan of Chrome extensions (although I use selected few) because they have too much control over the browser. I hear too often stories about extensions spying on users or stealing their data. It just doesn't fit my narrative. A desktop or mobile app would be a better option, but that's a different story. Also, why would you open Chrome if you don't have an internet connection? 😉

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6yr ago

Jane Sorensen

Honestly this was a concern for me too before deleting FB. LinkedIn also has something like it. I deleted both accounts but they were syncing with Contacts which has a Birthday calendar, too. However I'd get reminded of birthdays of people I hardly knew, and didn't have birthdays of people I'd want to know, and managing the Calendar eventually became buggy.

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6yr ago

Sasha Koss

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@janerette I hope my product will solve this problem if it’s still actual for you. I didn't know that LinkedIn has similar functionality, I'll take look and maybe add a new importing option.

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6yr ago