I'm a software engineer who built a wedding website builder as a side project — our own wedding was the launch. Tell me if anyone else would care.
When we were planning our wedding, we were running our entire lives across Notion, WhatsApp, Excel, and Gmail. It drove me insane. So I went looking for a tool that could be the one place — a beautiful site that matches the wedding's vibe and manages the guest list, RSVPs, registry, and budget. The Knot and Zola run on locked templates — you pick layout #3 and it looks like everyone else's. Wix and Squarespace aren't wedding-shaped, and you fight the editor for two evenings and there's no integration for RSVPs.
I'm a code person, so I did what code people do: I built it. A year of nights and weekends (not always consistent, to be fair) while planning the wedding that would become its first real test.
A few months in I showed the pre-production/v0 site at a dinner with friends. My wife's friend watched me using it on my phone and said *"I would actually pay for that."* That's the moment I started treating it like a product instead of a project.
Last month we got married — and the site ran the wedding. Most guests RSVP'd through it: meal choices, plus-ones, the whole flow. We manually entered the rest, because every wedding has an aunt who never opens a link. It survived its own launch.
So the pet-project is ready to slowly become something more. Here's a live demo you can click through in about a minute — and the couple in those photos is actually us. It's not our wedding website and it has some random content, but you'll get the idea: https://www.ourday.io/demo?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=sideproject
The free tier covers one full wedding website — I want couples in it before I tune pricing.
Be honest with me:
- What's missing that you'd expect from a wedding site tool?
- Would you pay for this when you get married — or is Google Docs + a group chat enough?
- What did you hate about the tools you tried? That gap is what I'm aiming at.
For now, I'm still gathering a waitlist to see if there's interest, and should it gain traction, I'll gain confidence and release it.
One more thing, since I'm new to this: I've never run a business. If this post is a bad way to start marketing a product, tell me that too — that's half of why I'm here.
Thank you so much for your time.