wedding website
Web and SaaS
wedding website
SHOW HN2018
436points
190comments
#36of 2,155 in 2018
Top 2%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
42 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.43.
Design: 8 for, 3 againstIdea: 10 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 5 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful design and timeline layout
From 3 comments
I’ve got a different format - timeline style: https://www.09092018.com Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)
yoongfook on HNThis is a beautifully designed site. It manages to tell a coherent narrative in such an engaging way. It’s lovely! It made me smile to see your wedding venue. It’s a lovely place.
iamrecursion on HNBeautiful! Also, nice website.
eiurafhlfie on HN
Requests to open source it
From 3 comments
Nice design! Please open source if you’re up for it.
jcrites on HNIt would be awesome if you could open source this!
turnerniles on HNPlease do it.
pks016 on HN
Objections
Bloated node_modules committed to repo
From 1 comment
Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket…
hit8run on HN
Gendered wording for plus-one placeholder
From 2 comments
Putting the placeholder for the +1(s) as "Wife or kids", Yikes... Are women allowed to use the form?
julius559 on HNNice! One thing about the RSVP, it has a section where you can specify the number of "Wife or kids" you are bringing. Probably could be reworded to something more neutral.…
nthitz on HN
Requests
Open source the code
From 3 comments
Nice design! Please open source if you’re up for it.
jcrites on HNIt would be awesome if you could open source this!
turnerniles on HNPlease do it.
pks016 on HN
Questions
How the Google Sheets RSVP security works
From 1 comment
How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line:…
pjc50 on HN
Alternatives named
Squarespace
From 1 comment
We did one quick and easy with squarespace. We had people RSVP with a form we set up there. Took about an hour. Worked awesome!
stevetodd on HN
withjoy.com
From 1 comment
I used a service called withjoy.com about 279 days ago :-) I primarily went to the service instead of a storied page because I needed a system to collect RSVPs. I could have…
reacharavindh on HN
Django wedding website
From 1 comment
Nice, this is great! I did the same thing with mine a couple years back: Demo: http://coryandro.com/ Code: https://github.com/czue/django-wedding-website Writeup:…
czue on HN