For quite a few years while in Saskatoon, my friends and I had a tradition of doing Secret Santa for Christmas. When we lived in residence, it was really easy for us to "get together" and pick names out of a hat (mainly, it involved walking to each person's room with the hat). But when we all moved away and got busier, it was rather difficult to pick a time when we could all get together. So, I wanted to do it electronically.
I hacked something together back in 2010 and I had wanted to do something more formal since then. My friend and I considered making a Facebook app but never got around to it. I pitched it as an Android app to a local developers group but other projects were chosen instead. So, I tried to make it myself, but in HTML.
After 3 years of thinking about and wanting to make a Secret Santa tool, I finally finished it! I think it looks pretty cool and hopefully it'll work properly when the time comes (I did test it but we all know that live tests are different).
Secret Santa Factory
What do you think?