Cupcake

@sasalatart @nicolas_gomez_espejo @raulmt @hnshah we just happen to have a business making it super easy to send people giant birthday cupcakes and even the ability to tweet a real cake to people - we should find a way to connect them up!

@alex_circei hi Alex. No, we don’t have that. We didn’t want to connect to things where we cannot ensure you are in control of your data. At the same time, we wanted to help you remember birthdays without all the noise in social media. I totally understand why you would want to do that though. Although the app looks very simple, believe me when I say it was full of not at all easy choices.

@airjoshb happy to have a talk!

@alex_circei you don’t need to ask the birthday of your entire contact list, you can selectively ask the ones you really care. We know that can become a burden for the people you ask to, and that’s why we tried to make that process simple (the second time you answer one you won’t need to fill the form, or if you downloaded the app you will only need to tap an “ok” button to accept sharing your birthday). I totally understand your point though, we’ll dig more to see if we can provide you an easy way to import some data without connecting to social media.

@alex_circei haha, yeah, with a calendar we could implement an ical import or something. We’ll discuss it with the team :) Thanks for trying it out! glad you liked the design :D

@nasherasher thanks for trying out Cupcake, Elliot! There were a lot of difficult choices here. We not only want to help you remember the birthdays you care about most, but also help your friends (with your approval of course) easily remember yours without that becoming a burden to you. One example is how you can get birthdays you don’t have. One feature we thought useful is to have your own personal link you can share with, for example, a group chat with your closest friends from school years. If you receive such a link and you have the app installed you can accept sharing your birthday with him/her by just opening the link and tapping “ok”. For that to happen that way we needed to store a minimum of your data (name, phone number and birthday). Thanks for the comment, though. We debated a lot about the balance between storing some data and adding more friction. We can maybe have options for you so you decide if you want even more privacy or you prefer a bit less friction. In any case, the data you enter in cupcake will always be shared only to the people you let us, and with no other person or company.

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@williamz902 of course you can! :) you are free to choose the tools that fit your purpose the better. Cupcake was created for people that don’t want the privacy concerns and the social media noise when they only want to remember birthdays. If you feel that’s important to you or you want to remember the birthday of friends that didn’t share theirs on fb (or don’t have fb at all), you are welcomed to give Cupcake a try ;)