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How hard would it be to set up a backend payment service to receive $$ for gifts?

It's not that complex. You can have a paypal.me address or set up a stripe account with buymeacoffee.com. There would be many more but these two are at the top of my mind now.

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

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I don't think we do it "to impress", but rather to "not disappoint".

That's even worse. I was giving them more credit but maybe you're right. The wedding industry thrives by sowing the idea of a perfect and unique wedding into the minds of little girls and later some man will come along and fulfil that dream.

I wouldn't buy dolls, and after, their clothing either. Yet my daugthers love them and I love my daugthers. I wouldn't buy expensive jewelry, yet my wife loves it everyday still.

There is so much you wouldn't do for yourself but do for the ones you love. That doesn't make it insane or just to not disappoint. You do it because it makes you happy to see them happy. If you would do the same if you were alone is not the thing that matters here.

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

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Yes, I found it extremely helpful too. You can only RSVP if you have the invite code. If you don't then you can't RSVP. You can store the code in a particular box in the sheet and then your google script can validate the code entered by the guest.

You are checking the invite code in the browser side js. That doesn't keep any tech-savvy user from registering even without code. Is this correct?

Yes, that's correct for my site currently. But what I had in mind is to have the invite code in the sheet itself and then when one submits, I check the entered code with the code in the sheet and then add/not add the rsvp.

However, due to timing constraints, I couldn't do this and instead used a simple encryption algorithm to have the hacker at least put in some effort to know the invite code :)

I will raise an issue on github for this.

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