Better Seater – Wedding seating chart optimizer
Is anyone having a big wedding reception/event with assigned seating soon? Or know anyone who will? I've been working on a tool to optimize seating charts for assigned seat events, such as weddings. I'm hoping this site will save people enough time and stress, to charge for the service for larger events. At the moment, there's no login required, and the service saves no data. Why? * Save time, rearranging people automatically * Help with politics of large gatherings * Try moving people and quickly seeing how everything shakes out Currently, it will try to optimize for: * Keeping groups…
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Better Seater is a tool that automatically optimizes seating charts for weddings and other assigned-seat events. Users can import guest lists from Excel or generate test data, then use the tool to arrange attendees across tables while keeping groups together, minimizing the total number of tables, and respecting preferences to seat people together or apart. The tool requires no login and saves no data, allowing users to experiment with different arrangements quickly to reduce planning time and navigate social dynamics.
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Is anyone having a big wedding reception/event with assigned seating soon? Or know anyone who will? I've been working on a tool to optimize seating charts for assigned seat events, such as weddings. I'm hoping this site will save people enough time and stress, to charge for the service for larger events. At the moment, there's no login required, and the service saves no data. Why? * Save time, rearranging people automatically * Help with politics of large gatherings * Try moving people and quickly seeing how everything shakes out Currently, it will try to optimize for: * Keeping groups together as much as possible * Use fewer total tables * Keep people either together or apart, as indicated Current Capabilities: * Import guest list/table capacity information from Excel file (there's a template) * Generate fake guest list to play around * Dragging people to different tables and reoptimize * Selecting sets of people who you want to keep together or apart * Locking people to certain tables * Edit history On roadmap: * Prioritizing people to seat at "better tables" (VIPs, close family, etc) * Rearranging tables visually What do you all think? Is this valuable? How's the UX? I haven't come up with a great name for it yet, so naming it "Better Seater" for now. All feedback and suggestions welcome and appreciated! Let me know what would be useful for you!
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