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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

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.

sr3d 16y ago
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.
- DirtyAndy 16y ago
  Personally I don't think the vendor management part is that useful. Tracking expenses yes, but getting more detailed than that is probably unnecessary. Another thing to track is deposits! Re pricing make sure you make that clear to users, but things like seating plans are normally done right at the end so it is a good tie in for you to get the recurring income (and the month they forget to cancel whilst on honeymoon) but personally I would still prefer a fixed price part.

sr3d 16y ago

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.

DirtyAndy 16y ago
Personally I don't think the vendor management part is that useful. Tracking expenses yes, but getting more detailed than that is probably unnecessary. Another thing to track is deposits! Re pricing make sure you make that clear to users, but things like seating plans are normally done right at the end so it is a good tie in for you to get the recurring income (and the month they forget to cancel whilst on honeymoon) but personally I would still prefer a fixed price part.