Christopher Karlson

birthpay - Automatically schedule birthday gifts and reminders

Schedule gifts to send automatically on your friends’ birthdays, and we will remind you when the day comes so you can reach out to them however you choose. Keep track of your friends' birthdays all in one app and make sure you don't miss one ever again!

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Charles Blasberg
It was my birthday recently and I got all these gifts and nice messages from my pals on Birthpay. Awesome app, good friends.
Rachel Levitz
Wow, this looks so convenient!
Christopher Karlson
Schedule gifts to send automatically on your friends’ birthdays, and we will remind you when the day comes so you can reach out to them however you choose. Keep track of your friends' birthdays all in one app and make sure you don't miss one ever again! I've been wanting to #deletefacebook and only keep it around to know when my friends' birthdays are. As I started logging on less and less, I kept missing birthdays and sheepishly texting days late...so I decided there must be a better way. I decided to combine gift giving with reminders, to entice people to sign up and enter their birthday to claim a gift sent to them by a friend. That way, you don’t have to manually input all your friends’ birthdays (because FB doesn’t let you export that info from your friends list). You just choose an amount greater than $0.50 (stripe lower limit), add a personalized message, whether you want to get reminder or not and whether to send anonymously or from you. Then the day of, the app will send your gift, and notify you, so you can reach out however you want! If you don’t want to pay or send gifts, you can also just schedule the reminder. But think of how nice it is to wake up to a cup of coffee on a friend on your birthday! Currently iOS only, but you can send a text with a clickable link to allow Android users to enter their birthday on the site, and the gift will send to their phone # over Venmo. Would love any and all feedback—don’t forget a friends’ birthday again!
Ryan Hoover
Related: I've been using Birthdays Reminder to send me email reminders for my friends' birthday (especially when I rarely check Facebook).
Christopher Karlson
@rrhoover ah, great idea--there's nothing new under the sun! If you want to schedule a gift to send automatically as well (and maybe declutter your email), check us out
Ben
@rrhoover hey Ryan, Birthdays Reminder doesn't work anymore, but I created hbd to help you remember birthdays - you can import from facebook too https://hbd.cool/#facebook
Edgar
I like the concept since I never check Facebook and also having too many "Friends" makes you forget to check on the birthdays of the people you actually care about. Do you have any plans in the future to integrate with other payment platforms?
Christopher Karlson
@edgar1 just using the Stripe API to capture card payments, but definite plans to integrate with other gifting options in the future (not just cash)