Please help me review my site at http://marrily.com
Please use the code "hackernews" when you sign up (this is still a close alpha release so I put in a code to help me track the signup users)
If you are planning your wedding, or just got married recently, please sign up and test Marrily out. I'd love to hear your opinions.
I'm the single founder for Marrily, and today is the result of an intense 3 months of me bootstrapping and developing the app in a cave then finally come out to see the sunlight, and shouting from the top of my lungs that Yes, Marrily is out!
Marrily is a word I came up with, it means to "Marry Happily." I wanted to help people getting married easier and less stressed, and the existing sites aren't all that great (I'll write more about this later in Marrily's blog.) Even though the real development took 3 months, it actually has been 3 years since when I came up with the idea and actually built and release the app. If I'm to learn something from releasing Marrily, it's probably perseverance and grit.
I decide that when I launch Marrily officially, it will be a premium app (e.g. pay-to-play, as apposed to freemium). The reason why is I believe that if I build a solid app that is useful and easy to use, and can potentially save people a lot of time and efforts, then it's fair to charge a small fee. With the freemium model, it's harder to code (limiting features in code can make things a lot more complicated) and can affect negatively the revenue (if the free one is so good that it doesn't make sense to upgrade). But I welcome your ideas and suggestions.
However, there's no subscription mechanism in the alpha release (I stil have not implemented any of the subscription handling code yet!). I estimate that it will take a few more weeks to finalize the app and have everything in place for the official launch.
Since you're one of the first people to see the app in its entirety, I'd love to have your feedback as you use it. More specifically, I'd like to know if you run into any issue navigating the application, and if something does not make sense to you, I'd love to know. I have tested as much as possible to make sure it is stable and ready for production use. But being a single founder, it's sometimes a challenge to keep track of every changes in the application.
It's been an amazing journey, and a life-changing experience, so I'd like to share this moment with all of you, and many thanks to the HackerNews community for being so awesome. I learned a lot about myself and entrepreneurship in the past few months, and I promise that I'll give back to the community to help more entrepreneurs fulfill their dreams.
Alex alexle@marrily.com