Birthday & anniversary reminders, by text
Be the friend who always remembers.
HBD Bot texts you a few days before every birthday and anniversary, so there's time for a card, a call, or a gift that isn't from the gas station.
- No app to install
- No password
- Texts at the hour you pick
HBD Bot7 days before · 9:00 AM
Mom's 64th is in 7 days
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3 days before · 9:00 AM
Mom's 64th is in 3 days
10th anniv. with Jordan is in 7 days
https://hbd.bot
The big day · 9:00 AM
Mom's 64th is today
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Sound familiar?
Remembering on the day is the easy part.
The hard part is remembering early enough to do something about it.
- 11:48 PM
You found out from Instagram.
“Happy belated!!” is nobody’s love language.
- 9:00 AM, the day of
Your calendar told you. Today.
Great for remembering. Too late for anything that has to ship.
- Every year
Facebook used to handle this.
Then you, and everyone you know, stopped opening it.
HBD Bot texts you while there’s still time.
How it works
Set up in about a minute.
1Sign in with a text
Enter your number and we text you a 6-digit code. That’s your login, every time. Nothing to remember.
2Add your people
A name, a month and a day. Add the year too, and the texts say who’s turning 30.
3Get the nudge
A heads-up up to two weeks out, then follow-ups as the day gets close, at the hour you pick.
The little things
A small app that sweats the details.
Nudges that build
Texts go out 2 weeks, 1 week, 3, 2 and 1 day before, and on the day, within the notice you choose.
On your clock
Pick the hour and your time zone. Morning coffee or evening wind-down, your call.
Ages, done for you
Add a birth year and the text says “Mom’s 64th”, not just “Mom’s birthday”.
Anniversaries too
Weddings, first dates, gotcha days. “10th anniv. with Jordan is in 7 days.”
One text, not five
Busy week? Everything due that day arrives together in a single message.
Leap-day proof
Born on February 29? In other years, your reminder lands on March 1.
Pause anytime
Off the grid for a while? Pause every text with one switch.
Talks to your AI
Connect Claude or another assistant and say “add Dad’s birthday, Dec 14.”
For the spreadsheet people
Forty birthdays in a spreadsheet? Hand them to Claude.
HBD Bot works with Claude and other assistants that support MCP. Connect it once from Settings, then add, fix or ask about your dates in plain English. It never sees your phone number.
Connect an assistantSmall on purpose.
We keep your phone number, the names and dates you add, and your reminder settings. Your number is used only for sign-in codes and reminders. Delete your account from Settings and it’s all gone.
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Questions, answered.
Do I need to download anything?
No. Reminders arrive as regular texts in your Messages app, and you manage your list at hbd.bot from any browser.
Which phone numbers work?
US numbers. Sign-in codes and reminders go to a 10-digit US mobile number.
How is this different from a calendar reminder?
Calendar alerts usually fire on the day and get buried with everything else. HBD Bot texts you days ahead, nudges again as the day gets close, and tells you the age or the anniversary number.
What if I don’t know the year?
Leave it blank. You still get every reminder; the text just says “birthday” instead of the age.
How do I stop the texts?
Pause them all in Settings whenever you like, or delete your account and everything in it.
Is there a password?
No. Each time you log in we text you a 6-digit code. Nothing to remember, which is sort of the point.
Someone’s birthday is coming up.
Probably sooner than you think. Add it now and let the bot do the remembering.
Takes about a minute. No app, no password.