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

#21

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 migh…

Regarding the pricing, I'm planning to have it around $12/month. Basically once you stop paying, you can still access the app but cannot make any changes to your event planning.

Regarding the timezone setting, since user can set up reminders in Marrily to get notified (via email and through their phone), it's critical to know their timezone so that the application can send out the notifications at the right time. The timezone dropdown on the sign up actually tries to be smart and pick out the timezone based on the user's current time.

You're right, Marrily at this stage is not yet ready for international usage yet. All the time-related fields are parsed as %m/%d/%Y (m/dd/yyyy). Once the main app is finalized, I'll add more international support and customization (like time dislay format, and how to format the contact name: "First Last", or "Last, First").

Regarding your comment about the Expenses, this is probably the weakest part of the app. I built a prototype that lets user enter in their budget for each categories and track their expenses accordingly, but I ripped that off since I didn't think it was god enough to release yet. I'd need to do further research and ask people for feedback before building this feature again. In the meantime, I'll add the "provisional" flag to the expense to keep track of provisional/actual. Also, do you think the ability to link the payment to the vendor helpful?

Thanks for all your comments. I really appreciate it.

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

#22
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SpringPad has a pretty nice "App" for wedding planning: http://springpadit.com/ It is probably not as robust as what you offer, but it suited me pretty well: contacts, RSVP,reminders, gift tracking, seating and vendor listing.

Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

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

#23

I'm getting married in a month so I'll try this out :) The planning process has been a nightmare, to say the least. We relied on google docs for 99% of it.

Initial feedback - Once I register, I see a dashboard that doesn't guide me anywhere. Even the 'what to do next' in the bottom left doesn't give me any REASON to do any of these things.

Instead of "Update your Event Settings" How about - "Add your caterer?" or "Enter your first menu item." something more actionable than 'update x/y.'

At least one of these should be up at the top when you first login. Like this:

Do this next: Enter the address of your venue.

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

#24
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:

"Choose and book ceremony musicians, a wedding band/ DJ, photographer/videographer, caterer and florist (Photography)"

This is several unrelated items grouped into one item.

For instance, I have a caterer, photographer, and florist, but need to book a DJ.

When I start using your service the first thing I interact with (and the main content so far seems to be this checklist) it needs be really good, because these kind of checklists are both really helpful when planning and the primary point of interaction with any planning service. For instance me and my fiancée mostly have been using books and such, the books center around check lists.

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

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post #24
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: "Choose and book ceremony musicians, a wedding band/ DJ, photographer/videographer, caterer and florist (Photography)" This is several unrelated items grouped into one item. For instance, I have a caterer, photographer, and florist, but need to book a DJ. When I start using your service the first thing I interact with (and the main content so far seems to be this checklist) it needs be really good, because thes…

Thanks for the comment about the checklist. The default checklist that you see comes from a template of items, and some of them probably need some more tweaking. Truthfully I got the list from other sites online (oops! don't tell anyone) and I haven't really re-write it yet. Wrapping up the app for the launch has really kept me busy.

Can I contact you via email to get more opinions on the checklist?

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

#29

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!

Hmm, signing up I noticed a lot of flash objects (ad-blocked) representing some text. Can you make it a jpg or does it serve a different purpose?

Remember, hackers don't like flash.

Edit: oh gawd, they're everywhere! no no no, please change them to jpgs as soon as you can! With ad/flash/block your site looks weird.

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