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

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Post by reacharavindh »

I used a service called withjoy.com about 279 days ago :-)

I primarily went to the service instead of a storied page because I needed a system to collect RSVPs. I could have hacked one up together, but this service offered everything I wanted, in a easy way, so I made the choice.

All our guests liked the website.

https://withjoy.com/evelynandaravindh/

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

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Post by wazari972 »

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 :)

very nice timeline, I'm curious to see how the sources look like! That kind of page could be easily templated, with something like a yaml file describing the content, and what ever being to generate the static website!

  8 years ago:
    what: Our first date
    where: Auckland, NZ
    photos:
      Camping trip: ...
      Roadtrip: ...

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

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Post by jmiserez »

dylan604 wrote: post #99
bronco21016 wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As others have said, in the US the formal paper invite is considered official. When my wife and I married we still did this but we encouraged people to RSVP via the website or email. No sense in sending more paper. It’s sad to me that we felt so pressured to do the paper invites. They’re ridiculously overpriced and all of that paper and emissions for delivery for something that can easily be delivered electronically…

How do you let people know about the website? Social media posts? How do you contact people not on social media about the website? A mailer? A phone call/text? These are just questions I would ask to understand why paper invitations are still a thing. Rather than providing a self addressed stamped envelope for the RSVP, just put the website into it. Also, people love to hang things like invitations on their fridge as…

Do you have the current postal mailing adresses of all of your friends? I certainly don't, so I'd have to call them or write them on social media first just to get the address.

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

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Post by hit8run »

Wow. Someone deleted my comment without any notice or whatever. What kind of practice is this here on HN?

I was not offending the author or someone else.

I was just criticising the size of the repo and the number of tools that are required to develop this single static website in contrast to a simple html file. People started to upvote and agree with me and the reaction is to simply delete?

If this is the new practice here I'll have to ask myself if it makes sense to keep participating in this community.

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

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Post by outime »

hit8run wrote: post #138

Wow. Someone deleted my comment without any notice or whatever. What kind of practice is this here on HN? I was not offending the author or someone else. I was just criticising the size of the repo and the number of tools that are required to develop this single static website in contrast to a simple html file. People started to upvote and agree with me and the reaction is to simply delete? If this is the new practic…

I still can see your comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18557415 (think you meant this one).

I believe comments aren't removed here at all. There are some comments which are objectively useless/offending in many threads and they're just flagged but never deleted, so I doubt they'd remove yours when it's a valid technical critique (if perhaps it can be expressed less harshly).

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

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Post by worldexplorer »

laurynas-s wrote: post #55

Nice! Had an idea to make a website for my wedding too (married one year ago), but in the end, decided to go with traditional paper invitations as would be difficult to explain to older people how to RSVP and paper invitations would be more cost-efficient (By comparing the time needed to build the website with my hourly rate). For big Indian weddings with hundreds of people, I do see that the website can benefit by n…

Indian weddings have this notion of 'Full family' and 'couple' invite string in wedding cards to limit the no. of people. Usually people go in person to invite people to wedding.
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