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Wedding sites in two minutes. No code, no account, free, on your own subdomain.
A wedding favor that turned into a product
I built a wedding site for a friend. It landed well enough that I figured I could sell them, so I made two more by hand. By the second, the shape of the thing was obvious: couples don't want a website, they want to be done in an afternoon. The site was just the artifact.
So I stopped selling the artifact and automated the part that actually mattered: the two minutes.
Three steps. No account. Live.
Fill a three-step form, claim a subdomain, and the site is up. No sign-up, no template gallery to scroll, no invoice. It's the opposite of the tools it quietly replaces. Every choice was a subtraction.
No accounts
You shouldn't have to register to announce a wedding. There's no login because there's nothing to log into. The form is the whole product.
No templates
One elegant design done properly beats fifty you're forced to pick between. Taste is the default, not a setting you have to go find.
Free
Everything runs on a free tier, and Firebase handles the data and the backend. The only thing I paid for was a domain I could afford. That was the entire budget.
yourname.ssite.fun
Each couple claims their own subdomain right in the form, like wedding.ssite.fun, and it's live instantly. Wildcard subdomains were the trick: one domain handing out endless subdomains, each resolving to a different couple's data. Most people don't realize you can do that, so the first reaction was always "wait, how?", which made me look considerably cooler than the code actually was.