PostHog's Birthday Bot

A Slack bot to collect and send birthday messages.

Setup

npm install

node index.js

Commands

• /set-birthday @user DD-MM: Set someone's birthday.
• /see-birthdays: Show all birthdays.
• /post-birthday-thread @user: Manually post a thread to the birthday channel for someone.
• /collect-birthdays @user: Manually collect birthday messages for someone.

Structure

A cron job that runs every day at 9am UK time to check:

1. If someone's birthday is 7 days away, trigger a collection of messages.
2. If someone's birthday is today, post a thread to the birthday channel.

There are also some commands that can be used to set birthdays and trigger functions manually.