wedding website

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wedding website

SHOW HN2018

436points
190comments
#36of 2,155 in 2018
Top 2%of 2018 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

42 positive, 16 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 11 critical, out of 70 comments about the project. Thread score +0.43.

Design: 8 for, 3 againstIdea: 10 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 5 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Beautiful design and timeline layout

    From 3 comments
    • I’ve got a different format - timeline style: https://www.09092018.com Let me know if anyone wants me to open source this :)
      yoongfook on HN
    • This is a beautifully designed site. It manages to tell a coherent narrative in such an engaging way. It’s lovely! It made me smile to see your wedding venue. It’s a lovely place.
      iamrecursion on HN
    • Beautiful! Also, nice website.
      eiurafhlfie on HN
  • Requests to open source it

    From 3 comments

Objections

  • Bloated node_modules committed to repo

    From 1 comment
    • Looking at the bloated and checked in node_modules folder makes me wanna cry. Yah it's probably all just dev dependencies but building a static website shouldn’t feel like rocket…
      hit8run on HN
  • Gendered wording for plus-one placeholder

    From 2 comments
    • Putting the placeholder for the +1(s) as "Wife or kids", Yikes... Are women allowed to use the form?
      julius559 on HN
    • Nice! One thing about the RSVP, it has a section where you can specify the number of "Wife or kids" you are bringing. Probably could be reworded to something more neutral.…
      nthitz on HN

Requests

Questions

  • How the Google Sheets RSVP security works

    From 1 comment
    • How does the "RSVP to google sheets" work? That's an extremely useful feature to have on a static site with no backend. It looks like it's related to this line:…
      pjc50 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Squarespace

    From 1 comment
    • We did one quick and easy with squarespace. We had people RSVP with a form we set up there. Took about an hour. Worked awesome!
      stevetodd on HN
  • withjoy.com

    From 1 comment
    • 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…
      reacharavindh on HN
  • Django wedding website

    From 1 comment
    • Nice, this is great! I did the same thing with mine a couple years back: Demo: http://coryandro.com/ Code: https://github.com/czue/django-wedding-website Writeup:…
      czue on HN

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