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In 2021, after getting covid, I ended up dealing with lingering symptoms that pushed me into reading PubMed for the first time. I was trying to understand what was happening, but I…

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 …

Lol, aiming for a simple and intuitive way to explain the app. The app is simple, so is the website.

The app collects minimal data for each user. Google Calendar access is read-only and deleted after import or within 30 days (we keep only the birthdays you choose). Data is encrypt…

The app sends WhatsApp texts through Twilio's API. It's not exactly the same pricing model, but so far is approximately the same as SMS costs

Thanks! And yeah it's nice to remember birthdays

Love to hear that! Texting apps are interesting ui

That would work, you could do it manually or sync with the app. Right now just supports Google Calendar sync, but would make sense to allow for any .ics file. Hoping to add that

Adding birthdays to a calendar would save you the $9/yr and may be preferable for some users. I just prefer text reminders—they are hard to miss. For me it's the simplest, least in…

That's great to hear, I really appreciate it! Love the attitude of simply wanting the thing to exist. Feel free to reach out on here or X (@sam_feldman_) if any questions or ideas …

Thank you, I really appreciate it! And I agree, I don't want the app to fall victim to a "big feature set" that ultimately makes it too complex. My mindset is to make it the simple…

Thanks! It depends on the week, maybe averages 1 hour per week or so. Every so often, there's a bug or random issue with some account (ex: someone texted "stop" and didn't know how…

Thank you! Most of the users so far have come from X ads (like this, for example - https://x.com/sam_feldman_/status/1930488932132671529 ) Some have also come from Google ads and o…

Thank you! There's currently no simple way to import via Facebook, but a workaround should let you do it. (as a disclaimer, you'll need an unrelated Chrome extension that I didn't …

Yeah nicely said, it's currently in a middle area between a big app vs an app that's not used at all. So far most of the birthdays.app users have come from X ads (ex: https://x.com…

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 co…

What is your monetization strategy for this? (being open source)