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My Wedding Guestbook

Adam Crockett ๐ŸŒ€ on July 05, 2023

I'm working on my own wedding website, Its a unique position to be in to have a website with paper invites but that is the only way my guests will ...
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Ben Halpern

If I understand correctlyโ€ฆ Once theyโ€™ve come to the website via their unique URL, you could store their info via cookie/localstorage (whichever is simplest given that this seems like a low-key security situation)

Then you can manipulate the home page RSVP to permanently be the unique one. If they come back directly to the home page from a different browser or context you could display a message asking them to scan their card.

โ€ฆ Iโ€™m not sure thatโ€™s what you want but maybe thatโ€™s a starter scenario?

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Adam Crockett ๐ŸŒ€

Iโ€™ve used social engineering to get around the problem of guests editing each other, instead of a unique URL and QR code all the invites get a OTP style 2 digit number called a personal guest number or a PGN pronounced โ€œpuggnuhโ€ the number is just their unique ID and when entered it will lookup that page in notion and return the pages properties such as guest details.

There is a form at /rsvp for entering that or the direct url.

Itโ€™s of course not actually authentication and perhaps I should refine my idea further

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