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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by dustinmoris »

Wow, all these wedding websites here look amazing. Ours was a really simple static webpage which I hacked together in a single day. At least our guests loved it :) http://hetalsaidyes.com

However, I shall say that we made the website for convenience, we still sent out letters with a formal invitation. The website was more like a place for people to quickly check details and later to distribute photos by guests.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by davedx »

Walkman wrote: post #6

I still find the idea of a digital wedding invitation pretty strange, because here in Hungary the bride and the fiancé invite everybody in person together. Maybe distant relatives are invited by mail or something. Is digital invitation a common thing nowadays? Or was it more common even years ago in other countries?

We sent very carefully hand-crafted invitations to all our guests in the mail. We did a wedding website to get the RSVP's, as we live in a different country to many of our guests so postal RSVP's would have been difficult (we sometimes have issues receiving mail here). The website was also a great information point on how to get to our venue.

So basically a bit of old and a bit of new. It worked well :)

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by [deleted] »

Y7ZCQtNo39 wrote: post #42
osrec wrote: post #7

Happy Anniversary! For those looking to use this, the following may help a little: find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Ram/YourName/g' find /path/to/folder -type f -print0 | xargs -0 sed -i 's/Antara/OtherHalfsName/g' Edit: FianceeName -> OtherHalfsName (some people are easily offended) :P

I always found the concept of a whole website, domain name, etc dedicated to a wedding to feel a little... heavy. I understand it's a big occasion. It just feels like a lot for a single event and domain that will become irrelevant after the event is over.

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Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by ranpr0 »

[Off-topic] I feel there is a need of many more open source projects. Most open source projects these days are backed by big cos. There are hardly any large open source projects nowadays which are not by big cos. Why is there no credible alternative to Uber which is open source ? How about open source stack for security software ?

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by Double_a_92 »

ranpr0 wrote: post #127

[Off-topic] I feel there is a need of many more open source projects. Most open source projects these days are backed by big cos. There are hardly any large open source projects nowadays which are not by big cos. Why is there no credible alternative to Uber which is open source ? How about open source stack for security software ?

Because it's not so easy to make a stable big software without lots of money and people. And only big corporations have that sort of money to spend on such things.

Re: Show HN: Open-sourcing my wedding website on my first anniversary

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Post by MetalGuru »

nilleo wrote: post #64
yoongfook wrote: post #44

I’ve got a different format - timeline style: https://www.09092018.com Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)

Getting ready to plan a wedding after double digit year dating -- The timeline approach is brilliant, thanks for sharing!

Nice! Kudos for doing it at your own pace. There’s so much societal pressure to “shit or get off the pot” when it comes to putting a ring on it.
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