Re:Ask HN: Will you pay 1$/month for?
by SchizoDuckie on Monday December 14, 2015 @04:01AM
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Seriously? I just added the people important enough to congratulate outside of facebook to google calendar with a yearly returning reminder (oh, and birth year, not unimportant)
Just before quitting Facebook, I made a point of adding friends' birthdays to my iOS contacts, which are shown in the calendar on my iPhone. However there is no option to be automatically reminded of all birthdays, so I still sometimes miss them. I feel like this should be available as a standard feature of iOS.
I'd pay for an app that would simply read all the birthdays from my contacts and create a calendar reminder for each one. Not a monthly subscription, but definitely worth paying a few pounds for.
Not sure about iOS, but on Mac OS X calendar: Preferences > General > Show Birthdays Calendar.
The value is in the gift suggestions.
Challenge accepted, will work on crawling gifts and gift matching algorithm. crawling is easier, should think about matching.
Looks really interesting, google trend shows `gift` query used a lot more than `uber`, `javascript` queries (just for comparison)
https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=birthday%2C%20gift%2...
For example: Anne, 27 Sep 2005.
Then, it emails me a month before with relevant gift suggestions from e-commerce retailers for female age 10.
For Christmas, I get a long list of everyone.
You could probably make the $1 off the affiliation links. However, I would like it to be multiple e-commerce sites, not just Amazon.