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Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by sr3d »

mortenjorck wrote: post #33
Kilimanjaro wrote: post #25

You got a really nice domain. I like what I see. Clean execution. It doesn't matter if it works right away, you can improve over time, customer feedback will lead your way. My verdict: two thumbs up!

Also, in a year or two, you'll thank yourself for not registering that name as a bandwagon-hopping .ly domain.

I got Marrily.com back in 2007 (wow, that was a long time ago!) before .ly became the new hot trend. I also have Marryly.com to redirect to Marrily.com, in case people mistype the "i" and the "y".

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by lftl »

mqmouse wrote: post #34

I think your app suffers from the same problem my startup app has, which is the empty canvas problem. So basically your app seems to allude to a lot of power and functionality, which is paradoxically a little intimidating for a new user. Basically, where do I start? You have a lot of choices in the "what do to next" section. What happens a lot of the time is the user says: Wow! what a cool application! Seems powerful…

Also, it may help if you fill in the canvas a bit for them with filler info so that they can see what it could look like once they fill things in.

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by SilianRail »

mqmouse wrote: post #34

I think your app suffers from the same problem my startup app has, which is the empty canvas problem. So basically your app seems to allude to a lot of power and functionality, which is paradoxically a little intimidating for a new user. Basically, where do I start? You have a lot of choices in the "what do to next" section. What happens a lot of the time is the user says: Wow! what a cool application! Seems powerful…

Good point. Dropbox does this very well.

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by sr3d »

m0th87 wrote: post #38

Why not jump on the url 2.0 bandwagon and get http://marri.ly ? It's not registered ;)

I think Marrily.com has a much better brand quality than marri.ly does. It's easier to pronounce too, marrily-dot-com (and you can also type marryly.com and get redirected to the main site) than to pronounce "marr[i|y]-dot-ly". People will probably get hung up at the i in the word "marri", since there can be 2 different spellings: marri or marry.

Too bad I couldn't register "merrily" (and its variation: merryly). Merrily was the first name I picked but it was registered to a lady in Seatle. But Marrily does it for me too, plus it has a nice twist to the name (to marrily means to marry happily).

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by mike-cardwell »

malyk wrote: post #31

First thing I noticed was that it was hard to find the sign up button. I tried clicking on the title "Sign Up" then clicked on the 30 day trial button, then saw two more things that said sign up and finally got to the sign up form. I was confused. It took me all of 10 seconds to figure out, but i'm not sure a regular user would be so successful. I like the visual design of the site. Looks nice. However I the titles o…

I clicked the green tab which says "Sign Up" on the front page. I then checked to see if no-script was preventing it from working. Then I realised that it wasn't supposed to be a sign up button. Not intuitive. Well, not to me anyway.

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by exline »

Related to pricing, your pricing page has a 'Free' option, but you said you are not going the freemium route. I'm assuming that you have just not updated the page yet. In the comments you mentioned $12 a month. Seems strange to offer this as a monthly service. I'd rather just pay a single price as a user. What happens after the wedding? Do they have to cancel? Since there is a definitive end date to the usefulness of the app, I think you should at least the option of paying for a 12 month price up front. But $144 might be a bit high.

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by sr3d »

mike-cardwell wrote: post #47

How are you storing passwords? It is complaining that the password I'm trying to use is too long (>20 chars). If you're storing a hash, there's no point in having any max length limit... If you're storing it plain text, then you're doing it wrong.

I'm using Devise, an authentication plugin for Rails, to handle the user registration. The default max length for the password is 20 characters, but I've bumped this up to 40 to be on the safe side. I'll deploy this change later in a bit. Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com

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Post by sr3d »

misterbwong wrote: post #46

you should probably redirect http://www.marrily.com to http://marrily.com . it's currently returning an nginx default page

I thought I had this redirection setup already! It turned out that this was due to the default server setting block was still in the nginx.conf file and overriding the redirection (instead of serving the correct marrily.com site, the default site was served instead)

Thanks for pointing this out. The redirection works now.

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