Boring Avatars VS Billy Birthday

Boring Avatars

JavaScript library to generates SVG avatars based on text.

Billy Birthday

Never miss your teammates' birthdays. Use Billy Birthday to automate birthdays and work anniversaries in Slack. Remote workers need social attention.

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The best effort/impact ratio you can find to increase employee engagement and recognition is to automate birthday and anniversary celebrations. It is cross cultural, cross-religious, cross-generation, cross-timezone etc. And it makes people genuinely happy to receive some positive vibes during this special day.

Boring Avatars

Website: boringavatars.com
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Billy Birthday

Website: billybirthday.com
Pricing URL: Official Billy Birthday Pricing
$ Details: freemium $7.5 / Monthly (for 30 users ($0.25cts per user, free under 30 users))
Platforms: Slack Microsoft Teams

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Boring Avatars features and specs

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Billy Birthday features and specs

Birthday messages: yes
Work anniversary messages: yes
List of upcoming events (with search): yes
Opt-out option: yes
Week-end management (choose to celebrate on Friday or Monday): yes
Private channels: yes
Multi-channels: yes

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Fixing your boring avatars (YIAY #486)

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Billy is cheaper than the competition and is known to have a human-touch that other bots don't have.

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Based on our record, Boring Avatars seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Boring Avatars mentions (4)

A project for pretty default avatars for websites — PrettyAvatars
I recently bootstrapped a company and we wanted some nice looking default images for our users that didn't upload their own and we found some out there but not too many with the goal we were looking achieve — other than boringavatars.com (where this project gets its inspiration!). We didn't want to implement avatars creators like the ones where you can customize the exact look and feel, that seemed too... Source: 9 months ago
I ported Boring Avatars to several frameworks using Mitosis from builder.io
Makes sense. I concentrated on porting what existed in boringavatars.com first. There is definitely room to alter the algorithms that generate the images now, though. Source: over 1 year ago
I ported Boring Avatars to a bunch of frameworks using Mitosis from Builder.io.
I would first like to thank Boring Designers for their initial work on boringavatars.com. All I did was port what they did to other frameworks using Mitosis. Source: over 1 year ago
HERE’s a list of free platforms you need for your next project! (Part-2)
Boring Avatars - Generate Avatars for your users faster and easier if you are lazy like me. Source: almost 2 years ago