Built a birthday calendar app with email reminders. Haven't missed a birthday since!

[mfbeeck]

BirthdayBubbles

This app is for all of us that never managed to figure out where to store birthdays since leaving Facebook behind. The app is simple, but exactly what I think a birthday calendar should be…

• Separate from the rest of your calendars
• Little to no manual entry (really easy to collect birthdays from others & share your own!)
• Email notification reminders (to not get mixed up with the hundreds of phone notifications)
• Beautiful design to make it easy to view & search birthdays

BirthdayBubbles is my first full-fledged product built with Replit! As an ex-engineer (a subpar one…) turned PM, it’s been amazing to work with Replit to start bringing some old ideas of mine to life - I feel like I have dev superpowers!

Would love to get feedback here if anyone tries it out!

[mannyseverino]

HI! I’m sorry if I missed it, but can you tell me why this is better or more useful than using my Gcal?

[mfbeeck]

Valid question! The main benefit I’ve had is getting an email reminder on Sundays with all the birthdays that are coming that week and getting email reminders every morning for birthdays happening that day. From what I’ve seen, Gcal doesn’t have anything similar. Here’s an example email for the week where I can easily see what’s coming and the important birthdays (favorites) are easily called out with stars:

Secondly, I have always found it hard to see my birthdays in my Gcal because they get mixed in with all the other events I have in my Gcal, so I end up missing them or toggling off the birthday calendar to hide them from view.