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The rank is supposed to be how well it does in its class. But I looked a few cities and the best hotel was always expensive (over $300). Never a good for the value midrange hotel. So it seems best isn't best in class.
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My co-founder and I actually met at a hackathon a few years ago and worked on an early version of the site. It's very exciting to finally launch! My co-founder Andrew is a lawyer-turned-developer. I'm a former tech journalist (Laptop Mag, The Verge).
Who did the design? Also, a little usability tip: When a user clicks on "Price" to sort, I think most users expect to see the lowest price first. You have it sorted by highest price first. I would reverse that. Also, I noticed the lowest price hotels often don't have a great score (around 60-70). Do you only list hotels that hit a certain score threshold (meaning, as a user, can I trust that no matter what hotel show…
We don't list any hotels with a score lower than 60, which means every hotel is a quality hotel.
Interesting... my corporate firewall flags your site with an adult-and-pornography filter. Did you recently purchase the domain from someone who may have been running a different type of site? :)
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Who did the design? Also, a little usability tip: When a user clicks on "Price" to sort, I think most users expect to see the lowest price first. You have it sorted by highest price first. I would reverse that. Also, I noticed the lowest price hotels often don't have a great score (around 60-70). Do you only list hotels that hit a certain score threshold (meaning, as a user, can I trust that no matter what hotel show…
Our designer was someone that my co-founder had worked with before. And thanks for the tip about price sorting. We don't list any hotels with a score lower than 60, which means every hotel is a quality hotel.
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Who did the design? Also, a little usability tip: When a user clicks on "Price" to sort, I think most users expect to see the lowest price first. You have it sorted by highest price first. I would reverse that. Also, I noticed the lowest price hotels often don't have a great score (around 60-70). Do you only list hotels that hit a certain score threshold (meaning, as a user, can I trust that no matter what hotel show…
Our designer was someone that my co-founder had worked with before. And thanks for the tip about price sorting. We don't list any hotels with a score lower than 60, which means every hotel is a quality hotel.
"Not every place in the world is on TripExpert... yet. We currently feature over 500 destinations, from major cities to Caribbean beach towns, and we’re adding more all the time."
Looks good. "Not every place in the world is on TripExpert... yet. We currently feature over 500 destinations, from major cities to Caribbean beach towns, and we’re adding more all the time." Isn't 500 too less?
- The city search doesn't work if you specify the state (San Antonio, TX for example). I didn't wait for the autocomplete to load and just pressed enter and it returned no results.
- It would be nice if the results automatically updated when changing filters, instead of having to click an "Update Results" button. Also, usually filters are above or to the left of results, not on the right.
- I expected clicking on the small map on the list view to take me to the map view, instead of having to click on the link below. The map is too small in the list view to really be usable as an interactive map.