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Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by tbronchain »

Really cool tool. I was thinking about a similar project since a while, you built it, please keep it going! Small side note, I'm not sure if it's because of the mobile version but I find it would be great to have some more details about the exact way you've found to go there (for example, when it shows the car are transportation way, how does it get this price? Is it oil price or also tolls or shared car or public transport? Didn't see any details about these). Also，it would be great to have details about which border to cross (if any) and give some visa information according to the nationality - these info are hard to get as always changing, but it could be a real strength of this project if you could give them - as no one else really does it well. Last cool feature, crossing the data with numbeo or nomadlist to get the cost of life in cities - and similar kind of cool stuff. That would be amazing!

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by EA »

I dig it this. If I have $2000 and a 4-day weekend coming up, I want you to email me places that my family can go at a certain budget.

I fly out of HSV most often and it is one of the most expensive airports in the US. It seems most of your estimates for me are off by a factor of 2 or 3.

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by kevinjoling »

kchoudhu wrote: post #10

Hmm, vacation duration tops out at 31 days and budget at $4000 per person in Los Angeles. This tool discriminates against the idle super rich ;) Edit to add: I love the design, and I love the idea. Keep adding to it!

Haha yeah we do, although I think every destination is covered even in that case :p

Thanks a lot! :)

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by nkrode »

kevinjoling wrote: post #2

Hi guys! My brother and I would like to show you what we have been working on for the past 6 months. What started out as a little project to learn to code together has become a full-fledged travel tool to discover destinations you wouldn't directly think of. It's called DESTIGOGO :) We are curious about what you think and happy to answer any questions you have!

Looks awesome, keep it going!

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by kevinjoling »

Xeoncross wrote: post #12

I love the look and the ease of selecting a destination idea. When it shows out-of-country options like "Grand Cayman" it routes your flights from your location to "FL" (closest airport to Cayman) and then seems to drop the ball there. The results for skyscanner shows cayman, but I don't see the flight anywhere. It's not a clear UI. Small thing, you must type the airport identifier in caps ("LAX" vs "lax") if you wan…

That's great :)

Ah that could be, we couldn't test all scenarios but for some destinations we indeed need to fine tune.

Thanks for mentioning, we'll fix that :D

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by hamhamed »

Nice design, but tool already exists everywhere.

So my question is: how will you differentiate yourself from the other 1000 budget trip planning tool other than a better interface?

Also how will you acquire your users? Travel startups are on of the hardest to acquire users, merely because it's so expensive

Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget

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Post by jonnyscholes »

This is awesome - always wanted something like this! Nice design and UX :)

A couple of small suggestions.

If I set my budget your app "fills" it leaving no room for food/in-country travel/etc. Maybe you could had a measure of how much people want to spend on such things - perhaps as a percentage but presented as fixed options (I eat out a lot, I visit attractions a lot)? Or make it more obvious somehow that this is the "bare cost" of getting to and staying somewhere.

Perhaps consider only rendering the first page or two of results - then load more in as I scroll. On my 2015 MBP it hangs a little when loading in all the tiles (in Firefox and Chrome).

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