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Placecard Room
Seating charts shaped to your real venue, edited together live
- Score
- 68
- confidence 48
- Evidence
- 5
- items on the page
- Rivals
- 1
- named in sources
- First version
- 35 d
- estimate
- Type
- Desktop and mobile
- PWA: on computers and phones alike
- Market since
- 2010
- Mature market · AI estimate
ScreensConcept
Desktop and mobile: Couples plan venues and shapes at a desk, but drag guests into seats together live—seated planner joins on mobile during the event or from anywhere. Sample screens on a computer and a phone, in the proposed brand. Their numbers are sample data.
Venue layout
Layout saved12 tables
About this appAI proposal
Placecard Room is a drag-and-drop seating chart for weddings and events. Draw your actual venue with round, long or odd-shaped tables of any size, then drag guests into seats. No fixed templates, no fixed table sizes.
Invite your partner, planner or a parent with a link. Everyone edits the same chart at once and changes appear as they happen, without locking or overwriting. A short note on each move shows why a guest was placed, so requests don't feel ignored.
Start without an account. Pay once to save a chart, or choose the multi-event plan if you run events for a living.
- Tagline
- Everyone gets a seat, and everyone gets a say.
- Voice
- warmclearcalm
- Why this name
- A placecard marks a guest's seat, and a room is where you and your helpers work on it together. Two plain words, easy to say.
In the first version
Members say which features they would use. It tells PWAS what people want; it changes no score.
Draw your real venue
Place tables of any shape and size, add a dance floor, stage or pillars, and match the room you actually booked.
No member yet
Live editing together
Several people move guests at once. Edits merge without blocking, and you see who is dragging whom.
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Try it without signing up
Open the app and start arranging. Create an account only when you want to save the chart.
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Change notes and replies
Attach a reason to any move and reply on a guest. Requests stay visible, so nobody feels ignored.
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Brand identityAI proposal
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Palette
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Typography
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Everyone gets a seat, and everyone gets a say.
PricingAI proposal
Based on a public claim of £8 one-time to save a chart and £25 per month for event managers, and a claim that other tools charge about $200. USD figures are converted starting points to test.
Try
Free
- Full editor without an account
- Custom venue layouts
- Not saved after you leave
Save
$10 once
- Save one chart
- Live editing with invitees
- PDF export and view link
Event manager
$30 a month
- Unlimited events
- Client sharing per event
- Guest import and rules
- PDF export
Would you pay Save · $10 once?
Your answer tells PWAS which prices people accept. It changes no score.
No answers yet.
What it could be worthEstimate
What a software business making this much sells for today, from real deals. Pick a monthly revenue.
If it makes
Worth about
$190,000
Sale range $132,000 to $263,000
$120,000 a year in revenue
From 87 software businesses listed and sold on Empire Flippers in the last year, revenue vetted by the broker: they sell for about 19× their monthly revenue, most between 13× and 26×.
Measured on profit, the middle deal is 32× monthly net profit: about 2.7 years of profit.
An estimate, not an offer or financial advice. A real price depends on profit, growth, churn, how much of the work is the owner's, and the buyer.
How it would growAI proposal
How the product would reach new customers through its own use, and how the first ones would be found. A plan to test, not a result.
- Built-in loop
- Users invite others. A couple invites their partner, parents and planner to edit the chart. Venues and caterers receive a view-only link and PDF that carry the product name.
- Do they become customers?
- Invitees are often other couples' friends or planners who may need it later. Test how many invitees and venue contacts start their own chart or ask for the manager plan.
- First customers
- Independent wedding planners running 10 to 30 weddings a year, plus engaged couples with guest lists over 80 who are planning with family.
- Where to reach them
- Wedding planner communities: Offer free trials in planner groups and forums and ask for feedback on live editing with clients.
- Wedding planning forums: Answer seating-dispute questions with a template and a link to try the tool without signup.
- Venue partnerships: Give venue coordinators a free floor-plan builder so they send couples to the tool.
- First milestone
- Twenty paid saved charts and five paying event managers within eight weeks, with at least half of charts having two or more editors.
Why people already pay for this
- AI inferenceCouples and planners spend hours debating seating arrangements, and the real friction is not the initial decision but repeated requests to make changes and the perception they are being ignored.
- Public claimExisting online seating tools use fixed table sizes, rigid templates, and charge high prices ($200), which do not match users' actual venues.
- AI inferenceExcel and Post-it notes are inadequate: spreadsheets don't provide visual representation and manual Post-its around a table are slow and don't enable remote collaboration.
- Public claimThe product has 500+ paying customers in its first few weeks, organic-only growth.
- Public claim
Tech stack
Every proposal builds on the same PWA base, installable from the browser on any phone or computer. Dashed boxes are what this app adds.
- AppNext.js and TypeScript
- PWAManifest and service worker
- UITailwind CSS
- Data and authSupabase Postgres
- PaymentsStripe
- EmailResend
- HostingVercel
- This app · Realtime collaborationCRDT-based sync over WebSocketsMerges simultaneous drags without conflicts or locks, which the shared stack does not provide.
- This app · Canvas drawing2D canvas or SVG editor librarySmooth dragging and free-form tables on phones and laptops.
RisksAI inference
- TechnicalLive editing must feel instant on weak venue Wi-Fi and phones. Offline edits that later merge need careful testing.
- CommercialMost couples use it once. Revenue depends on a steady flow of new couples, and event managers may be few.
- CommercialLow-cost one-time pricing may leave little room for support and hosting if free trials are heavily used.
- DataGuest names and relationship notes are personal data. Share links need safe defaults and deletion on request.
- PlatformDrag and drop on small touch screens can clash with scrolling and browser gestures, especially in installed PWAs.
Everything marked AI proposal or AI inference was written by a model from the evidence on the opportunity page. The proposed name must be checked against trademark registers before it is used.