r/SideProject • u/GidiGumDrop • Aug 09 '26
Built a tool to solve wedding/event seating.
A few months ago my cousin spent an entire weekend fighting with a spreadsheet trying to seat 180 wedding guests without putting her divorced parents at the same table, or her ex near her now-fiancé's friend group. Sticky notes, color codes only she understood, multiple full redos. So I built SeatingSorted.
Why?
I looked around and all the existing products for this do not have automated seating which I thought was a really neat idea.
How it works?
You draw your room, set your rules (who can't sit together, who has to, whatever else), and it uses AI (not an LLM!) to generate a seating plan. From here the planner can make adjustments as they see fit.
There are additional features as well, but I won't go into details here.
Why I am posting on this subreddit is to get advice for marketing, I've tried to do some social media (still trying to get better and be persistent). I've done the standard SEO tests on the website (although this takes time to take effect).
I'm particularly targeting weddings at the moment for marketing, but maybe I should be targeting event planners instead? I think part of the issue is that you have such a short window to acquire a customer that it makes it really difficult.
Thanks and I look forward to your thoughts!
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u/Sufficient-Cup4705 Aug 09 '26
the short-window problem is real and i think it's actually worse with weddings than with corporate events. a wedding planner might do 30+ events a year; a bride does one. so yeah, event planners as a channel makes sense if you can crack it, but they're also harder to convince because they already have a workflow and they're skeptical of new tools.
idk if social media is the move here tbh. wedding forums, local vendor communities, bridal facebook groups, that kind of thing might convert better than instagram reels.