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A love-story website a couple builds themselves, gated by the database, not just the UI
A couple's story usually lives scattered across a camera roll and old chat threads, with no single place to actually give it as something. Ours turns it into a permanent page a couple builds themselves and can gift as a link, not a PDF or a slideshow.
Built end to end by Zaheen Zuberi
The problem.
Generic website builders assume either a business audience or a full wedding-planning workload (guest lists, RSVPs, vendors) that most couples do not need for what is really a two-person gift. Nothing free and simple existed for just the story and the photos, sized to be built in minutes rather than an afternoon.
How it was built.
Two modes from one template engine
Wedding mode adds an invitation, an event schedule, and RSVPs. Keepsake mode is just the love story and photographs, with no guest management at all. Same engine underneath, built for two different reasons someone opens the site.
A paywall enforced by the database, not the UI
A couple builds their entire site for free and can share a private preview link with anyone. The public address only resolves once the site is marked paid and published, and that check lives in Postgres row-level security, not application code, so guessing the address is not enough to see a page that has not been paid for.
Free games with no signup, as the way in
A bucket list, a "how well do you know us" quiz, and a "who's more likely" game are each free, need no account, and generate a shareable link from just a title, giving people a reason to try Ours before deciding to build a full site.
Manual payment today, wired for a real gateway without a rebuild
Payment is currently confirmed by hand after a bank, JazzCash, or Easypaisa transfer, flipped in an admin panel. A real payment gateway only needs to call that same server-side action from its webhook when it's added, not a different system.
What it does today.
Couples who want a permanent, shareable page for their story, a full wedding site or a private keepsake gift, without hiring a designer or running guest management they don't need.
- 01Two site modes, wedding and keepsake, from one template engine
- 02A public/private split enforced in the database itself: free preview link, paid public address
- 03Free bucket list, quiz, and couple-game tools with no signup required
- 04RSVP handling for wedding mode, where a guest can submit a reply but not read anyone else's
- 05Live at couples-site-psi.vercel.app: 15 signups in its first two days live, with 5 couples' websites published
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