I built a text-based birthday reminder app

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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 couple years prior (using zapier + google sheets), and found it useful. It was a pain sifting through Facebook birthdays (90% irrelevant), and I found the text reminders simpler than a calendar.The app has been slowly growing since 2023, and is now up to 739 paying users (mostly on the $9/yr plan, with a few paying $3/yr).Earlier this year, I built a Google Calendar integration to automatically sync birthdays to the app. My goal is birthday reminders without the baggage a normal "social" app would have such as ads, en

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Website: birthdays.app