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Re:Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding ind... by huhtenberg on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @02:14AM (#1553733)
> something disruptive

Not to pee on your parade, but what you described is a neat idea, but it is not disruptive. Making something that would cut down the cost of a wedding by 50% and be so overwhelmingly and obviously beneficial as to become viral - that is disruptive. Otherwise it's just a noise on a market.

Re:Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding ind... by Kliment on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @03:13AM (#1553800)
It's a start. You can't topple a giant by smashing into them head-on.
Re:Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding ind... by GrandMasterBirt on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @11:15AM (#1554513)
Not true. Sometimes something is so entrenched in society that unless you smash into it head-on nothing will happen, and you might even be seen as something stupid.

I agree with the fact that this is not "disruptive", when I opened the post I expected to get something that can help you cater you wedding for a fraction of the price or something, or a mechanism for to shop and rate wedding planners, something.

Now a REAL wedding disruptor would be a tool that auto-generates video/photos of you and your family at a wedding so you can send those out and skip whole wedding nonsense, and go drinking with all your combined friends for the evening.

Re:Technical cofounder wanted for disrupting the wedding ind... by dstorrs on Wednesday July 28, 2010 @03:04PM (#1555279)
> Now a REAL wedding disruptor would be a tool that > auto-generates video/photos of you and your family at a > wedding so you can send those out and skip whole wedding > nonsense, and go drinking with all your combined friends > for the evening.

No offense but...you've never been married, have you?

A wedding is a lot like a startup -- there's a whole lot of pain and frustration getting it launched, but launch day is a hell of a lot of fun -- not just for the bride and groom, but for the family and friends too. (The difference is that most people want a wedding.)

Besides, even if you found a customer base that would be willing to buy this, your mother would shoot you for not having her to your wedding. :>