Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews
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Show HN: TripExpert – Professional Hotel Reviews
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#2This looks great: it's a well-designed site and solves a lot of the problems in TA. The idea that people will rate hotels higher based on "marginal experiences" is very well put, and probably true. Will definitely use in the future.
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#3Beautifully designed and very useful. I hope this is a big success! What's your background, how did you start this site?
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#4This is a great site and idea; much needed. Do you have an API? I work at a "sort of" OTA "start-up" (200+ mm visitors a year) and it would be nice to explore including these reviews on our site.
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#5This is a great site and idea; much needed. Do you have an API? I work at a "sort of" OTA "start-up" (200+ mm visitors a year) and it would be nice to explore including these reviews on our site.
Yup, we've got an API. Shoot me an email at dann@tripexpert.com!
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#6Beautifully designed and very useful. I hope this is a big success! What's your background, how did you start this site?
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).
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#7This is pretty cool. It seems like the search doesn't work that well for me, though. I first typed in "San Diego, CA" and got "no results matched." Only then did I realize that if I type "San Diego" and wait a few seconds (it took about 5 seconds), the autocomplete would populate. But it seems like the matching should be a little bit looser. I tried to find results for Maui, Hawaii, but couldn't figure out how (I entered "Maui" and waited and nothing popped up in the autocomplete, and then searched simply on that term and got no results).
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#8This is pretty cool. It seems like the search doesn't work that well for me, though. I first typed in "San Diego, CA" and got "no results matched." Only then did I realize that if I type "San Diego" and wait a few seconds (it took about 5 seconds), the autocomplete would populate. But it seems like the matching should be a little bit looser. I tried to find results for Maui, Hawaii, but couldn't figure out how (I ent…
Thanks for the feedback. We're definitely still working on perfecting the search, so this is helpful.
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#9Beautifully designed and very useful. I hope this is a big success! What's your background, how did you start this site?
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 shows up in your listings, it means I can expect a good stay?) - or do I still need to be wary of the scores and avoid ones with low points?
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#10Interesting... 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? :)