Offer HN: Getting married October-March? I need alpha users.
papercrown.org
papercrown.org
Looking at all this makes me very, very glad that I'm not getting married anytime soon. Jeez, what a hassle.
You say it. I have been unable to find a photographer who could take a picture of me that I could just use on all the social networking sites, no strings attached. I told a friend she should become a "Web 2.0" photographer offering exactly that kind of thing, and she said she couldn't - I think out of solidarity with the other photographers or something like that. I guess somebody else will eventually step up to the task.
He still retains the copyright, but had no objections to us sharing them around. Nice guy!
My favorite part was the interactive guest list, so everyone can see who else is coming (and who they might be interested in, etc.)
(sorry, I can't put the link here, it has an RSVP form and I don't want it to get too spammed)
What's it written in, and what's required for hosting? I'm getting married in 5 weeks, but I've let my new job and house take priority over creating the website.
Hmmm ... is there no way to private message someone on here?
edit* If you are willing and you have a reddit account, could you private message me so we can take this offline? I have the same user name. Thank you.
I'll be interested to see how this goes forward (though I dont think users from this community will be great test subjects) and if you can fix out the main problems.
Good luck :D
Which main problems were you thinking of?
The main problem that was pointed out is that your dealing with a very emotional point in someones life. Or as Troy Simpson noted last night (accurately):
> its something about how society projects it as the 'most important day of your life' that makes everyone involved really demanding and evil
At the end of the day if something your building interrupts the process or screws up to "spoil things" (using that term loosely - with the emotions involved spoiled could have a very diverse/off-the-wall meaning) then you could end up being blamed...
However it was also pointed out people are willing to lavish money on weddings - so if is has value people are very likely to pay :D
I guess it's a perfect example of taking the rough with the smooth!
(the history of last nights, very brief, chat is here: http://www.chatterous.com/hnyc/history/)
EDIT: I'd like to add I love the idea btw! One thing about weddings is their one of the few mass-family and inter-family "joy" occasions. Lots of people together having fun. Now that more and more people are online and interacting it's a great opportunity to extend the "fun" either side of the wedding day too.
As far as planning, I see my project as facilitating some forms of it in a very lightweight way--not a "serious" planning app. I'm going for beautiful, fun, informative, and friendly.
The convergence of interest in this space is--interesting! I just got an email from someone saying he'd like to help, except he's working on a competitor.
Chris Erickson
Seriously, if it turns out my alpha users are disproportionately nerdy (which adjective I use with all love) and/or smart and they turn out to be misleading about what "airheads" want, then I guess I'll have built the wedding website service for nerdy/smart couples. I can think of worse positions to be in.