YC startup launches: Project Wedding

http://www.projectwedding.com/

by herdrick • 19 years ago

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herdrick• 19 years 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• 19 years 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• 19 years ago

From the source, it looks like this is running on RoR... wasn't YouOS re-written using web.py a bit back?

Leonidas• 19 years 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• 19 years 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 :)

Alex39172• 19 years ago

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

JMiao2• 19 years ago

Great to point out, but isn't that irrelevant?

zaidf2• 19 years 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.

Alex39172• 19 years ago

completely irrelevant. :-)

Readmore• 19 years 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.

YC startup launches: Project Wedding

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