We've been working on a new mobile app, Ceremony, to make it easy for people to collect and share photos at weddings (or similar events).
We still have some features to finish up, but it has reached a point now where we think it's complete enough for folks to use. Would love to hear any feedback you have!
I had the very same idea last week while watching friends swapping pictures at the end of a weekend away.
Looks great, the only thing I would say is there are events outside of weddings where this would work so don't leave other casual occasions out of your marketing plan.
Good point about including other types of occasions in the marketing. We intentionally started out with a really narrow focus, but adding some examples of other situations where the app could be used sounds like a good idea to me.
You could always release a revised version under another name that was not do heavily linked to weddings. Anything wedding related can be charged at a higher rate so your $5 price is worth paying for those special events, although probably only paid by one or two people (bride and groom) . If it is juts me and my mates at a weekend away the we would all want the pictures so would all want the paid for version but $5 is well above the impulse range. If it was $2 or even $1 you would be looking at selling a paid version to every attendee.
Looks like a nice alternative to using public hashtags on instagram.
A couple questions off the top of my head: 1) can you join an event you haven't been specifically invited to? 2) my wedding was at a ranch away from cell service, do you need to be connected in order to use Ceremony?
1) Yes, if you know the event code. Every event gets a unique code, and you can share that code with people to allow them to join. (The codes start out randomly generated, but you can also customize them to something more memorable if you want).
2) You do need to have network in order to initially join or create an event. But once you're in the event you can create posts and they'll be stored locally. Once you get back online it'll sync your posts up to the shared feed, and download any new items you haven't seen yet.
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 26.6 ms ] threadWe still have some features to finish up, but it has reached a point now where we think it's complete enough for folks to use. Would love to hear any feedback you have!
Looks great, the only thing I would say is there are events outside of weddings where this would work so don't leave other casual occasions out of your marketing plan.
Good point about including other types of occasions in the marketing. We intentionally started out with a really narrow focus, but adding some examples of other situations where the app could be used sounds like a good idea to me.
A couple questions off the top of my head: 1) can you join an event you haven't been specifically invited to? 2) my wedding was at a ranch away from cell service, do you need to be connected in order to use Ceremony?
To answer your questions...
1) Yes, if you know the event code. Every event gets a unique code, and you can share that code with people to allow them to join. (The codes start out randomly generated, but you can also customize them to something more memorable if you want).
2) You do need to have network in order to initially join or create an event. But once you're in the event you can create posts and they'll be stored locally. Once you get back online it'll sync your posts up to the shared feed, and download any new items you haven't seen yet.