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MoneyLion ( http://MoneyLion.com/ ) | New York, NY or San Francisco, CA | Full-time | Onsite MoneyLion is a technology-enabled lending institution focused on helping all consumers …

1 year at Cisco Systems hardware engineering internship, 1 year at a mobile startup before mobile was really a thing, 8 years at Goldman Sachs in their electronic trading business-…

Vishal from WedWell here. Really appreciated the input from everyone who commented, and the votes. We're charging forward. Hopefully you'll see us in the next YC round ;) Overall l…

True-- Efficiency may not be the best term for marketing this thing (to anyone beyond the YC community). I'm all ears for sure. I'd love to hear your thoughts. You can reach me at …

I second the idea that a facesmash like approach could really be a much better idea of how to handle this. It's easier to view one startup vs another instead of looking at voting o…

Thank you! Very helpful for our message

We're still iterating, but right now we reach out to vendors proactively. So ideally it's little/no work for the vendors to have to search for events, we post them on events that t…

Thanks for the comment. We really do think its less about finding the cheapest vendor and helping streamline the process. Elsewhere here it was coined as "vendor dating", which is …

Vishal from WedWell here. This competition was a bit unstructured in general. So not surprised that many teams didn't talk too much about their teams, and spoke more about their id…

RE WedWell: Thanks for the comment. Funny enough we're moving slightly from "WedWell: Vendors bid for your wedding" more towards "WedWell: A more efficient way to plan your wedding…

RE WedWell: I think it's less about unique insight, and more about timing/positioning. Couples expect to communicate with vendors over the phone/text, they don't want to write pape…

Vishal from WedWell here. Lol.. Zenefits was boring.. so thank you?

RE:WedWell - no good vendor would put themselves through his - they’d be too busy making money. >Not what we're seeing. Were initially focused on the NYC area. There are a huge amo…

Thanks gills. Love to pick your brain a bit about this. Happy to move to email at some point. What was your solution called? We think that this is a process problem vs a technology…

Thanks again for being a client! We're really lucky to have clients like you and your fiancé. Your feedback is helping us make a better product.

Thanks! There's a lot of old tech in the wedding space, but the act of planning a wedding has largely stayed the same. We're hoping to evolve that. Our goal is to make it easier to…

Thanks malyk! It's a huge space. Some more data that we find really attractive in this space: Average cost of US Wedding(1): $32,641 Average cost of Wedding in NYC(1): $82,299 (We …

Vishal from WedWell here. Thanks for the breakdown of the shortlisted startups. It's really thorough and I largely agree with your assessments. Your breakdown reminded me of a PG e…

Thanks for the vote! Planning a wedding is super broken. Besides the fact that vendors largely up charge specifically for weddings, the amount of time it takes to iterate with vend…

My gut feeling is that YC wouldn't want to some how alienate those with low karma points, but they could do something like only allow those to vote who have commented on Apply HN p…

Hey HN! I'm Vishal. One of the team members behind WedWell( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11441020 ). We're somewhere in the top group of entries with 43 points. I wanted to…

Thanks for the question! One idea was to incentivize couples who've already had weddings to share their details of their weddings/vendors with us. We in turn we would build and hos…

One of our initial marketplace platform inspirations was 99designs. I was really drawn to the idea of building a brief that was a text/link based representation of what I wanted ou…

I think your question is about how to manage possible friction between the vendors and the couples. Currently for weddings that have planners (about %20 of them do), people can use…

Client acquisition is one of the biggest concerns we have with this idea. If we're creating a solution for couples, we will have low/no user retention. We have considered creating …