Just launched the Birdie Beta – Simple time-off tracking for teams

Hey Indie Hackers,

We recently launched the Beta for Birdie, a time-off management tool that gives teams more flexibility without the complexity of typical HR software.

It’s free to use during Beta, and a few early teams are already onboard with positive feedback.

Birdie lets you define custom leave policies, set up approval flows, and automatically sync everything with Slack and Google Calendar. It's flexible enough to work for startups, growing teams, and remote-first setups.

We're a team of two with backgrounds in product and engineering. Our goal is to keep Birdie simple where it matters, and powerful under the hood. We’re building in public, sharing progress via our [open roadmap], and plan to open-source the full platform soon.

Tech stack (for the devs):
Next.js, DrizzleJS, tRPC, next-auth, Neon, Vercel, Trigger.dev, Resend

We haven’t finalized pricing yet, but we’re planning a free hosted tier for small teams (likely up to 5 users) post-Beta. For now, it’s all free during Beta — try it out, and we’d love your feedback as we keep improving!

If you get a chance to try it, we’d genuinely appreciate your thoughts!