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Seat Maker
A small team or single technical person can replicate the core seating generator and canvas UI as a mobile PWA, but matching the native iOS polish, App Store distribution, and existing user reach would be costly; the minimal workflow is realistic to build and maintain.
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No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off110 h to build
$0/mo1 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Import guest list (CSV/Contacts) → place tables on a room canvas → drag-and-drop guests onto seats with touch support → run shuffle generator that respects locked VIP seats → export final plan as image/PDF/QR.
What it still won’t have
- Native App Store presence and native iOS distribution
- Polish and platform-specific touch/gesture refinements of a native iPhone/iPad app
- App Store reviews, discoverability and existing user base/brand
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Seat Maker does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a single-tenant Progressive Web App using React + Konva (canvas) + TypeScript, with a service worker for offline support and IndexedDB/localStorage for persistence. Scope: mobile-first room editor with round/rectangle/oval/square table primitives, touch drag-and-drop of guest tokens, CSV import and household grouping UI, a shuffle/generator that fills unlocked seats while preserving locked anchors, export to PNG and PDF and generate a QR code for sharing. Out of scope: native iOS App Store packaging, user accounts, payments, analytics. Include error handling for malformed CSVs, device-storage failures, and offline sync conflicts; include unit tests for shuffle logic and end-to-end tests for the import → place → export flow.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Evidence score55
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSeat Maker: Seating Chart Maker App for Weddings & Events
- official pricingSeating Plan Generator: Fast Table Plans on iPhone
- official docsSeat Maker Features: Drag & Drop, VIP Lock, Shuffle & Export
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
