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I kept forgetting birthdays. Not the dates — I knew those. I would remember on the morning, with no time to get anything, and send a message that arrived after everyone else’s.

So chipinkart does one thing: it emails you about a week before, and it brings a few gift ideas with it, matched to what that person actually likes. Long enough ahead that you can still do something about it.

It also does group gifts — one person starts it, everyone chips in and votes, the birthday person gets a separate link to put their own wishlist on, and nobody spoils the surprise. No money changes hands here; the app just keeps track of who said what.

Abhijith H R, in India, in evenings and weekends. It is a personal project, not a startup. There is no company, no funding, and no plan to grow it into one — it was built for my own family, and it is free because it costs almost nothing to run.

If something is broken, confusing, or reads badly, I would genuinely like to know. Write to hello@chipinkart.in — it goes to me.

chipinkart is a participant in the Amazon Associates programme. If you buy a gift through one of our links, we may earn a small commission. It costs you nothing extra.

The thing worth knowing: this does not affect which gifts you see. Suggestions come from matching the interests you tagged against a small hand-picked library, by a rule that has no idea what anything pays. Nobody pays to be in it.

We may also show ads on the public gift-guide pages later. Never on your own screens, and never on an invite or wishlist link — those belong to you and the people you shared them with.

Take payments. Sell or share the people you add. Send you anything except the reminders you asked for. Nag you with notifications. Those are not features waiting to be built; they are the point.

The privacy page says exactly what is stored and how to get rid of it. The terms say the rules. Both are written to be read, not to be skipped.