birthday treats

Spacing rule: spread out treats that are similar AND have short claim windows (e.g. Costa and Greggs sweet treats, or ODEON and Cineworld popcorn) into different months; birthday-month or month-long offers, and treats that are completely different from each other, can land together. Any calendar is only a suggestion based on this rule; ask the user to adjust it.

Keep a premade master list of UK birthday freebies at /home/box/birthday-treats/tracker.md (+CSV); refresh it by searching Reddit (e.g. r/UKFrugal), MoneySavingExpert and other roundups, then verify each offer on the brand's official page.

Build a treats calendar page that shows each month's treats and why they're placed there; update it as the user approves or moves things.

When spreading birthdays, use one consistent day of the month the user picks (e.g. always the 3rd) so dates are easy to remember.

Some coffee apps share one loyalty account (e.g. Caffè Nero and Coffee#1 both run on Neal Street Technologies), so one date of birth covers both; check for shared logins before suggesting separate months.

Use as the first conversation of a birthday-treats bot with its new owner, to set it up.

Fires on the 1st of each month to tell the owner which birthday treats land that month and how to claim them.