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#11
I have been wanting something like this but for my Facebook friends. I am really bad at keeping up with people's birthdays unless it's someone I talked to at least once a week. I'd love to automate sending birthday cards like this. Or hell, even just writing on their wall with one of like 19 preset messages. Even better: an AI that determines how I talk to this particular individual (SMS, iMessage, email, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, something else), and opens a pre-composed message on their birthday for me to edit and hit Send on. Obviously I need some way to blacklist certain contacts from this since I wouldn't want my partner who I live with to get a generic "Happy Birthday" while we are out to lunch or something, or an ex who I am still somehow friends with on Facebook or some such but don't actually want to talk to.

A related problem: who have I not messaged in a while? Scan my messages and tell me who is due for a "Hey, how are you doing?" message? Again, simple in principle, hard to make usable especially given that I use different apps to talk to different people.

Re: Show HN: Cardybot, a Slack app that sends signed birthday cards for remote teams

#14

I have been wanting something like this but for my Facebook friends. I am really bad at keeping up with people's birthdays unless it's someone I talked to at least once a week. I'd love to automate sending birthday cards like this. Or hell, even just writing on their wall with one of like 19 preset messages. Even better: an AI that determines how I talk to this particular individual (SMS, iMessage, email, Facebook Me…

Thanks for the feedback! We'll always be evaluating new features.

Re: Show HN: Cardybot, a Slack app that sends signed birthday cards for remote teams

#15
My team recently bought a gift for someone who was leaving, and it was slightly time consuming to figure out who wanted to contribute, and then to keep track of the cash. I thought a good idea would be to build a Slack app to split purchasing gift cards, with built in suggestions.

Feel free to steal my idea and add it to your app!

Re: Show HN: Cardybot, a Slack app that sends signed birthday cards for remote teams

#16
post #15

My team recently bought a gift for someone who was leaving, and it was slightly time consuming to figure out who wanted to contribute, and then to keep track of the cash. I thought a good idea would be to build a Slack app to split purchasing gift cards, with built in suggestions. Feel free to steal my idea and add it to your app!

That's an interesting problem. Thanks for the feedback! - we're looking at ways to integrate gifts.

Re: Show HN: Cardybot, a Slack app that sends signed birthday cards for remote teams

#17
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

it's a cool idea. a) i'd use a handwritten font and semi-randomized angles to make it look more real. b) PLEASE don't send me yet another thing i have to sterilize before bringing in my house. Countless (literally can't be counted) people are involved in the mailing, sorting and delivery of mail and all of them are potential Covid-19 carriers. Lacking an autoclave i can't really sterilize paper without getting it wet…

> most folks don't have disposable gloves. Why not just read it without gloves, and then wash your hands afterwards?

Or just don't touch it until it's been untouched for four days.
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