r/IMadeThis • u/OurMomentApp • 5h ago
Follow-up: what we changed in our wedding seating chart tool after your feedback
Hey everyone!
A couple of weeks ago my partner and I posted about OurMoment, the seating chart tool we built after painfully doing our own wedding chart in Excel.
First off, thank you. We both have a lot of experience with software, but going to market with an app we built from the ground up is a whole new set of challenges and learning opportunities. I’m happy there are communities like these to help people grow.
Now for the feedback – several of you tried the demo, a few signed up, and some of you DMed us with areas of improvement. This was extremely valuable and we’re here to offer some updates on what we learned.
What we learned
Nobody wants to create an account to find out if a tool is worth it. The “funnel” was kind of annoying just to try the dang tool. That made sense, so we updated the experience which helped more people find and try the tool itself. When you go to the homepage on https://ourmoment.io or the demo page, you can start trying the editor in one click.
The editor didn’t feel complete. Some power users had 20+ tables and found the editing process slow at times. We took top requests and pushed out the following changes:
- Snapping and guidelines to help you perfectly place your tables
- Context menu so when you right click on things you can easily act
- Venue objects are now available allowing you to add items like dance floors, trees, cakes, and bars to help visualize your night
Highlighting the things we do better than Excel. We got a few questions around the specific features our tool offers. We didn’t do the best job of calling them out. We redesigned our landing page to call out the important stuff:
- Visual live editing with your partner – you can follow your partner’s mouse and see what they are changing all in real time.
- Auto seat assignment – helps you assign guests to open spots while keeping groups and pairs together
- Relationships – have BFFs who must sit together or a pair of friends who have to be apart? You can define those now and the auto assignment will take care of it. Plus, you’ll get visual cues if a relationship is incorrect in the editor.
- Bulk import and export of your data – we don’t want to wall you into our tools; we want you to take your data and use it wherever you want. We also want to make it easy to bring your data from other platforms, and we have options to bulk import from Excel or CSV so you can get all your guests into your project in minutes.
What is next
It’s been awesome to see something we built being used and helping people. This first batch of feedback has really expanded the things we want to focus on, and we’re planning on expanding out the ways you can plan and design your wedding on ourmoment.io. The next big features we’re planning:
- Guest tags to allow you to organize guests and seat them more organically
- Design tools to help you decorate your tables
If you’re planning your wedding or just interested in trying it out, the offer from the last post still stands: DM me and I will send a code for a few free months of Premium.
Try it here, no account needed: https://ourmoment.io/seating-chart-demo/
If you planned a wedding, what were some of your pain points with seating, guests, or designing your charts?