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Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by coldtea » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:00 PM UTC

beachy wrote: post #72

coldtea wrote: post #56

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Yes if everybody shared his post the environment would be so much better. Kind of how Facebook "Likes" on sappy posts help the third world.

Discussion != likes. If someone twigs that they could cycle to work instead of driving - win.

>Discussion != likes.

No, but they have in common that both != action.

>If someone twigs that they could cycle to work instead of driving - win.

I don't think those are actual wins. Those are empty feel good gestures when 350 million others will continue to just drive. Only coordinated action, and even better legislation, matters.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by morgante » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:01 PM UTC

froindt wrote: post #71

noobiemcfoob wrote: post #26

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Add a couple more features, we might well have LaaS (Life as a Service)

And SaaS (Sex as a Service). The day there's an app for people seeking prostitutes where both parties leave stars and text reviews like Airbnb or Uber will be a weird day.

There was: https://www.wired.com/2015/02/redbook/

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by mivv » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:16 PM UTC

My wife and I did something a little similar. I built out our RSVP system on a web app, but we still printed actual invitations pointing people to go to our website, with a unique handwritten code on each one.

You can check out the code here if interested. It also includes the wedding info site as part of it, so there is a bit of cruft, but I'm sure you could repurpose it if you dug into it deep enough: https://github.com/mvarrieur/vovarrieur-dot-com

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by j_s » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:41 PM UTC

I remember working too long on the email version of my wedding invitation for those who chose to receive the electronic edition when they filled out the Gogle Form to RSVP... trying to get fancy with email formatting is such a pain! I sent out the initial "Save the Date" postcard by mail.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by dschep » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 12:55 PM UTC

Hah, my sister did something not too different, she wrote a small Flask app hosted on PythonAnywhere[0] for guests to RSVP to her wedding.

[0] https://www.pythonanywhere.com/

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by beart » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 1:00 PM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #167

mstade wrote: post #98

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I'd love it if I didn't get dead tree invitations. I have nowhere to put them and I feel bad throwing them away. And also of course, dead trees.

I've kept every wedding invitation I've ever received. They take up a small corner of my "personal memories" shoebox. I don't really understand how you can have nowhere to keep them unless you're living out of a suitcase.

How often do you pull those old wedding invitations out and what value do you get by holding onto them?

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by pmarreck » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 1:17 PM UTC

beart wrote: post #176

pjc50 wrote: post #167

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I've kept every wedding invitation I've ever received. They take up a small corner of my "personal memories" shoebox. I don't really understand how you can have nowhere to keep them unless you're living out of a suitcase.

How often do you pull those old wedding invitations out and what value do you get by holding onto them?

I think the fundamental dilemma here is between the "packrat" and the "thrifty liver"

I have a box with all my old handwritten letters from just before the Internet and email exploded. I rarely take it out, but when I do, it's kind of neat to show my niece and nephew.

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by pmarreck » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 1:18 PM UTC

lpa22 wrote: post #132

andrewguenther wrote: post #23

In my opinion, this makes the whole process very impersonal. I invited people to my wedding because I care about them and wanted them to share that day with me. Although it was a lot of effort, I was happy to make save the dates, invitations, and hand write thank you notes to every singe one of them. If you're not willing to do that, then you're inviting too many people in my opinion.

I felt very similarly for my first 3 weddings. But I finally let go and automated my 4th, and I think everyone appreciated it.

Given that divorce is a $50 billion industry http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/divorce-documentary..., I'm guessing that automating divorce has a lot more market potential

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by kbsletten » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 1:55 PM UTC

Slamchunk wrote: post #153

Author here. Weddings are time sinks even small ones like mine, we viewed around 20 venues for example, multiple caterers etc. Anything you can do to save time is a good thing. Handwriting invitations, making 500 paper cranes by hand all are lovely gestures but we focussed on what was important to us - food! For example saved a bunch from ditching traditional wedding invites and table favors (we did have amazing flow…

This was a fun read! When I got married the invitations were very important to my wife, but I built a website to handle RSVP (with my mother as a fallback phone#). It was a fun project, I had my wife help me design it and I also found the tally-at-a-glance helpful. I'm sorry you have to read all this bile about how you did your wedding, but I'm glad you had fun with it!

Re: How I Used Twilio, Python and Google to Automate My Wedding

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Post by madshiva » Thu, Apr 13, 2017, 1:57 PM UTC

mstade wrote: post #98

sumeno wrote: post #38

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Not everyone cares about the same things you do. I used paperless post for my wedding because it was easy, free, and physical wedding invitations are not important to me or my wife in any way. Nobody complained, it took a couple hours to get everything set up the way we wanted it, and within a few days we had around a 90% response rate. Only 1 person RSVPed as no so it doesn't seem like anyone got the impression we d…

I'd love it if I didn't get dead tree invitations. I have nowhere to put them and I feel bad throwing them away. And also of course, dead trees.

Seriously? I received maybe 3 cards of weeding and more thant 30 for my birdthay. I kept them all too. We can save tree when there's purpose like printing for reading an email, for invoice, etc. because they don't give or add any value, but my handmade card for my weeding, if you throw it is disrespectful, because If I had invite you, it's that I take care of you. (BTW I made only 15 invitations.)