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This is an exciting concept that has been tackled by many teams, few of which have yet been able to reach significant scale. But I believe it will happen. Feastly ( http://eatfeast…

carl sagan has a great section about this in 'the demon haunted world' - he describes / speculates how many modern stories of 'alien abduction' can be explained by sleep paralysis.…

for people who want to try out or develop with less without installing the ruby gem, you can compile documents via http here: http://www.tripeedo.com/less

this is very cool, and the beginning of a trend, it seems to me. the whole semantic web depends on structured information, but it's a pain to structure information. it makes a lot …

yes. a lot of airline and travel websites have awful, inexcusable user interfaces, and they could use a good kick in the pants. similar frustrations inspired us to build tripeedo.c…

while remaining dead simple to use, heroku is also becoming an increasingly sophisticated platform, capable of handling a wide variety of app requirements. eg - background workers …

for those who missed it, this comment refers to the hacking of this story. hacker news was briefly hacked, and this story was altered to link to a website (hosted at appjet) that l…

also, the interface is optimized for speed and convenience. you can type 'www.bestbuy.com' into your iphone, but given the choice, our feeling is that many people will prefer to us…

frankfurt/main is now the top match for 'frankfurt'. :) the way to specify an airport if the top match is not right is just to keep typing. eg: london => london all airports (lon);…

yeah, that's one option we're thinking about. we went with popups initially because 1) it's simpler and 2) it wasn't clear that loading up 10 windows in iframes would necessarily b…

this sounds like a firefox issue. if you choose to enable popups for tripeedo.com, then firefox should remember that choice. let me know if you find otherwise...

it's custom built. the site is rails hosted on heroku. ruby already had some decent time/date parsing, and there is a great natural language time/date library called chronic that h…

we try to warn (in 2 ways on the homepage) that popups will be opened. how could we make it more clear in a user-friendly way?

sorry about that - we try to make it clear that new windows open, by saying so in the instructions on the left, and also displaying a message when more than 5 airfare providers are…

increasingly, travel sites are letting people do those kind of flexible dates search, which is a promising trend. you're right, for the time being tripeedo is primarily a different…

yeah, we need to fix or warn about that better. the reason that the airline searches don't work reliably is that most airlines only serve a few airports, and if you search for airp…