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This looks nice enough, but I've been using my general calendar app (Google Calendar) with a yearly repeating event for this, and I'm not quite sure what this gives me over that.

Thanks! I agree - this is probably functionally inferior to using your calendar.

I built this as a small open-source Supabase demo and something I'd personally use.

i'm a huge fan of the recent trend in open-sourced "micro services" that offer one useful product and can be run on a heroku free tier

even one mildly tech-savvy member of a friend group could reasonably manage the digital infrastructure of a personal social circle as a hobby

A bit of very low contrast, especially on the byline "stop forgetting...".

Good idea though!

Idea- Allow adding birthdays in alternate calendars. That would be a real differentiator from things like Google Calendar, which don't usually allow recurring events based on an alternate calendar. But a lot of people do celebrate birthdays based on other calendars, so when the main proposition is recurring events, it makes sense as a feature.

There is also https://www.monicahq.com/ of you want to remember more than birthdays!

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