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       Show HN: Birthday.report - open-source birthday calendar
        
       Author : paulshen
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-04-06 17:29 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | nicoburns wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | paulshen wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | jareklupinski wrote:
       | 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
        
       | brianzelip wrote:
       | A bit of very low contrast, especially on the byline "stop
       | forgetting...".
       | 
       | Good idea though!
        
       | llimos wrote:
       | 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.
        
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