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

#11

Upon registration, the page (create event i believe) is too wordy. At first, I did not realize that I had to select the date of the wedding to move forward to anything. I clicked on the links up top but all of them kept reloading the page (the css seemed broken for an instance or 2). IMO, clearer and much shorter, to-the-point instructions are necessary. A small walk-through or a quickstart guide directing the users…

Also, is there any contact-import planned? Either from services like Facebook or Gmail or something like a .csv/.xls upload.

Any particular benefit on using Flash for the titles on the dashboard?

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

#12
OP, you should have a "slideshow" to show the features on your front page, visually.

Notice that your photographs on your front page right now do not convey any meaning? Don't fall for this trap, people don't care about pretty pictures.

Check out http://waveaccounting.com/ to see what I mean by a slideshow showing the features.

You have photographs in your About section also which do not convey any meaning http://marrily.com/about.

Real estate is incredibly important for a website - use it wisely.

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

#13
post #7

Too much text. I know you want to get your app out and screenshots are in the works, but it still must be said: show don't tell. Features are all text, need visuals. When I sign up and enter the admin I am lost. Takes me a while to figure out what to do. A guided quickstart guide would be helpful. Navigation menus that are directed either by arrows or numbers also help. I suppose if I already paid then I will take th…

Thanks! I'm planning to redo the features page to spice it up more. The reason why I haven't put up the screenshots is because I was still working on the pages and they were changing quite a bit. But I guess now it's the time to put more visuals into the feature page to entice users to sign up.

Regarding the user interface, I believe there is room for improvements so I'll keep thinking more about it.

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

#14
Nice site. Still a bit to do but looks nice, easy enough to use etc. You asked for thoughts on pricing. Unless you can get write-ups in wedding magazines (in my experience they should give you a wedding magazine when you buy the engagement ring because that is the first thing the girl buys after the proposal!) then you are going to struggle to get people to part with money without some level of trial, but 7 days might be enough.

Then a charging structure based on a wedding might be best, $50 for a wedding (especially if you can demonstrate the ability to save time or money) would seem very reasonable. Personally too much more would seem a bit steep but I might just be tight. Monthly would obviously seem better as a revenue generator, but doesn't feel right to me - this is supposed to be a once off event - even if it is the third time!

Some thoughts on site: 1. On Signup "Who are you" default who you are should be Bride. You may also want to include Mother of Bride in the list. 2. Timezone - why? 3. When - using US Date. Huge market for this outside of US. Either work out dates from browswer or dd-MMM-yyyy. UK market you'd have to make some changes as they divide wedding into 3 parts (church/ceremony, food, dancing) but it would still be useful as is. 4. Expenses - no total 5. Expenses - possibly you want a flag for provisional and actual - catering supposed to be 50 a guest x 100. 90 guests confirm so actually only 4500 and probably confirmed a few weeks before date 6. Guests - nice flow,liked that you didn't have to enter too many details, because I wouldn't enter much. Maybe make it more obvious they only have to enter a name

Looks good, wish I could have set my wife up in this when we got married. Good luck.

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

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post #18

Have you seen the Google Spreadsheet for wedding planning. It has a lot of functionality you mention on your pricing "checklist." I am not saying this to discourage you, just to improve your checklist!

Also you had 2 "choose a wedding date" on the default checklist you get.
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