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YC startup launches: Project Wedding

16 points by herdrick 20y ago

herdrick 20y ago
The company name looked familiar, and sure enough: it's the YouOS company. https://www.youos.com/ So have they decided the web desktop thing isn't in demand?
- pg 20y ago
  I think they wanted to build a specific webapp as a way of learning what webapp developers need. I believe there's YouOS code under this.
  - andreyf 20y ago
    From the source, it looks like this is running on RoR... wasn't YouOS re-written using web.py a bit back?
Leonidas 20y ago
Hrm I don't know how they're going to compete with theknot.com. I've thought of this idea before and searched out the competitors. Every women and girl out there knows theknot is where you go to plan weddings. theknot is featured in every women magazine available. Heck, I don't plan on getting married anytime soon and I even know you go to theknot. But hey, it's cool they're trying new things out but they seriously need talk to women before diving into a woman industry related area.
- hsiung 20y ago
  Well, ProjectWedding.com was designed by women and it is steadily growing (it currently receives 10,000 page views a day from northern california bride-to-bes). It's assumptions like yours about theknot.com's monopoly which make this "project" (pun intended) particularly enticing :)
Alex3917 20y ago
Logo is misleading. Wedding rings are traditionally plain gold bands. Engagement rings are the ones with the rock.
- JMiao 20y ago
  Great to point out, but isn't that irrelevant?
  - zaidf 20y ago
    Knowing tonnes of women might be using the site, many WILL notice it:) For such sites details matter a lot; and getting the basics such as this wrong can get your users to lose trust in your site.
    - hsiung 20y ago
    - jyw 20y ago
      Engagement rings are closely related to weddings. If you polled women about the logo, I doubt you'd get any who would consider it "wrong".
      - zaidf 20y ago
        Point taken. If that's the case then I guess there is nothing broken here and I'm assuming folks behind the site did their homework when creating the logo. I do love the overall site design.
    - JMiao 20y ago
      Zaid, it's not about whether people will notice it -- they WILL notice it because it's catchy and memorable. Calling the logo out is irrelevant because the logo works in regards to weddings.
  - Alex3917 20y ago
    completely irrelevant. :-)
Readmore 20y ago
I had this same idea about 6 months ago (right around the time I got engaged ;). What is going to set you apart from theknot.com? I don't disagree that you could do it better than the knot but competing what that marketing machine is right up there with fighting Google.

16 points by herdrick 20y ago

The company name looked familiar, and sure enough: it's the YouOS company. https://www.youos.com/ So have they decided the web desktop thing isn't in demand?

pg 20y ago
I think they wanted to build a specific webapp as a way of learning what webapp developers need. I believe there's YouOS code under this.
- andreyf 20y ago
  From the source, it looks like this is running on RoR... wasn't YouOS re-written using web.py a bit back?

Leonidas 20y ago

Hrm I don't know how they're going to compete with theknot.com. I've thought of this idea before and searched out the competitors. Every women and girl out there knows theknot is where you go to plan weddings. theknot is featured in every women magazine available. Heck, I don't plan on getting married anytime soon and I even know you go to theknot. But hey, it's cool they're trying new things out but they seriously need talk to women before diving into a woman industry related area.

hsiung 20y ago
Well, ProjectWedding.com was designed by women and it is steadily growing (it currently receives 10,000 page views a day from northern california bride-to-bes). It's assumptions like yours about theknot.com's monopoly which make this "project" (pun intended) particularly enticing :)

Alex3917 20y ago

Logo is misleading. Wedding rings are traditionally plain gold bands. Engagement rings are the ones with the rock.

JMiao 20y ago
Great to point out, but isn't that irrelevant?
- zaidf 20y ago
  Knowing tonnes of women might be using the site, many WILL notice it:) For such sites details matter a lot; and getting the basics such as this wrong can get your users to lose trust in your site.
  - hsiung 20y ago
  - jyw 20y ago
    Engagement rings are closely related to weddings. If you polled women about the logo, I doubt you'd get any who would consider it "wrong".
    - zaidf 20y ago
      Point taken. If that's the case then I guess there is nothing broken here and I'm assuming folks behind the site did their homework when creating the logo. I do love the overall site design.
  - JMiao 20y ago
    Zaid, it's not about whether people will notice it -- they WILL notice it because it's catchy and memorable. Calling the logo out is irrelevant because the logo works in regards to weddings.
- Alex3917 20y ago
  completely irrelevant. :-)

Readmore 20y ago

I had this same idea about 6 months ago (right around the time I got engaged ;). What is going to set you apart from theknot.com? I don't disagree that you could do it better than the knot but competing what that marketing machine is right up there with fighting Google.