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by sr3d 16y ago
I checked out Dropbox's Getting Started page after reading the comment and liked it alot. In fact, I spent today implementing a getting-started page similar to Dropbox's one. In my case, Marrily is a B2C app, and the first impression of t
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by sr3d 16y ago
Thanks for the insights. I can see that you're the hustler busting your balls trying. Get rich or die tryin'! Keep it going, and good luck!
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I love this snippet. Awesome! Anything else you care to share?
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Hi Exline, I always wanted to have a number between $10 and $15 so that it's more like a casual price that won't make people cringe to fork out their money. In my survey ( http://marrily.com/survey ), $10 - $15 is also the range that peopl
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by sr3d 16y ago
I have the exact setup for Marrily.com: http://marrily.com/blog . The main site runs Rails 3RC, and any requests begin with /blog will get proxied over to the WordPress site running locally. Basically I have Apache running on port 81 loca
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by sr3d 16y ago
Not in any particular order, but I'd highly recommend these interesting books: How to run a Thriving Business - Ralph Warner (the founder of Nolo book) The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy (I read this based on a recommendation by a fello
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I'm reading "Surely you are joking, Mr. Feynman". I'm about 100 pages into it, and it's a pretty cool read. Smart as he is but the way he wrote it doesn't make me feel intimidated at all. I was really impressed about the part when he tal
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by sr3d 16y ago
Absolutely. I'd love to talk to other HNers. I've had great success meeting awesome people here. My skype/YM is alexnhatle. Hit me up anytime. Cheers!
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hi MqMouse, thanks for the feedback. Do you mind sharing your startup? I'd love to take a look and see how you solves this empty canvas problem. I was thinking about building a wizard to force people into populating their settings, but on
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Can I pick your brain about how the table place cards would look like? Is it like a tent card with people's names on it so that the guests can find out who else is sitting on the same table? The contacts/guests export feature is planned fo
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by sr3d 16y ago
This is the way I think about the difference between Marrily and TheKnot too. And it's my goal to build Marrily to be really simple and useful, but I'll gradually add more and more resources to help users get inspirations as well. I will i
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My thinking is that a wedding on average is planned 6 months in advanced. So at $12.79/month (this is the pricing point I have in mind), the total will be $76.74 per user. Of course it doesn't make sense for users to pay after their weddi
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Good call! I just bought it at https://libyanspider.com for $75/year.
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I have to admit, TheKnot has an enormous amount of resources, tips, and articles. They are probably the biggest name in the industry, while Marrily is a one-man product. Marrily probably won't have that much wedding resources as TheKnot d
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by sr3d 16y ago
fixed :) Thank you!
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I thought I had this redirection setup already! It turned out that this was due to the default server setting block was still in the nginx.conf file and overriding the redirection (instead of serving the correct marrily.com site, the defa
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by sr3d 16y ago
I'm using Devise, an authentication plugin for Rails, to handle the user registration. The default max length for the password is 20 characters, but I've bumped this up to 40 to be on the safe side. I'll deploy this change later in a bit.
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I think Marrily.com has a much better brand quality than marri.ly does. It's easier to pronounce too, marrily-dot-com (and you can also type marryly.com and get redirected to the main site) than to pronounce "marr[i|y]-dot-ly". People wil
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by sr3d 16y ago
I got Marrily.com back in 2007 (wow, that was a long time ago!) before .ly became the new hot trend. I also have Marryly.com to redirect to Marrily.com, in case people mistype the "i" and the "y".
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Yes, you can import contact from a CSV (no XLS yet) file and Marrily will take an educated guess at the file structure (this feature is inspired by 37Signals's Highrise) to help you import the contacts. I'm planning to implement the import
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by sr3d 16y ago
I'll rip out the sIFR headings to make the site more anti-flash-friendly. I don't use AdBlock or Flashblock so I didn't test the site out without Flash. Thanks for the good catch!
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by sr3d 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback on the dashboard. Based on your comment, the dashboard is probably not very clear about what you should proceed next. I'm thinking about converting the static suggestion list (yes, it's just a static list at the mo
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by sr3d 16y ago
Thank you. You just make my day... blushed :">
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by sr3d 16y ago
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)
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Thanks for the link, I'll check it out.
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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 reminde
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by sr3d 16y ago
Thanks! I'm planning to redo the features page to spice it up more. The reason why I haven't put up the screenshots is because I was still working on the pages and they were changing quite a bit. But I guess now it's the time to put mor
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by sr3d 16y ago
Thanks :)
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Ask HN: please review my site - Marrily.com
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by sr3d 16y ago
Hi Tracy, I'm also working on a wedding application. I just dropped you an email. Hope to hear from you! Regards, Alex

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