Secret Santa without email addresses

After the draw, the organizer page has a button that copies every link as one message, one line per person, with the name in front:

Paste it into the group chat, or send each line privately. A link only shows that person's own draw. If someone opens the wrong one they see someone else's draw – the same as picking up the wrong folded paper – so in large groups, send them one to one.

Because the email version fails in boring ways: a typo, a spam folder, a colleague who checks email twice a week. And because collecting addresses is a chore nobody enjoys. Links in the chat you already use reach everyone in a minute. There is a second reason: we store no addresses at all in this mode, only the first names you type, and everything is deleted automatically 60 days after the event.

A private page showing who has opened their link (so you can nudge the right person before the party), an "add participant" button for latecomers that slots them into the circle without redrawing, and a delete button for when it is over. What you never get is the list of who drew whom – which is what lets you take part yourself.

Keep couples and siblings apart, stop last year's pairs from repeating, state the budget as a range and set the exchange date. All of it shows on each person's link, so nobody has to ask in the chat.