If you don't visit the site on your cakeday, reddit will hold your cake until whenever you return. So the reminder should be worded like, "Your cake will be there when you next visit the site" rather than, "You'd better get over to the site or you'll miss your cake!"

It's not about the cake and all about the karma.

I don't follow -- the site holds the cake, and the cake is the key to the karma.

Not sure if the HN community will appreciate this as much, but this is awesome! I just signed up. Not sure if you already did, but be sure to post this to Reddit (obviously). I'm sure it would get much more traction there. Nice work! :)

So far it got more traction here than on Reddit. I probably chose the wrong subreddit (r/somethingimade).

Maybe try commenting the link with something clever on posts from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/cakeday/search?q=cakeday&sort=to... - That may help spread the word?

I've done that already with missed+cake+day and forgot+cake+day yesterday and it yielded a couple of sign-ups.

I was wondering why it wasn't working for me, then I realized it queried the Reddit API from the client side... which I blocked on my work computer.

It'll work if you either deactivate JavaScript or if you add pass your reddit username in the URL like this: http://www.cakedayreminder.com/user/NameNick