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Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by pnathan »

exelius wrote: post #47

Concur's core product is shockingly awful. My company recently switched to it, and I don't know anyone who actually uses it. Most of us have figured out we get lower prices and less hassle by just ordering directly from the airlines / hotels and booking them to or corporate credit cards. If you're in a hurry, we can just call AmEx travel and pay $30 for them to book the trip for us using their travel agent terminals…

Concur is quite possibly one of the worst UI's I've ever used, right up there with IBM Rational Atria ClearQuest or IBM Lotus Notes.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by blahshaw »

pnathan wrote: post #51
exelius wrote: post #47

Concur's core product is shockingly awful. My company recently switched to it, and I don't know anyone who actually uses it. Most of us have figured out we get lower prices and less hassle by just ordering directly from the airlines / hotels and booking them to or corporate credit cards. If you're in a hurry, we can just call AmEx travel and pay $30 for them to book the trip for us using their travel agent terminals…

Concur is quite possibly one of the worst UI's I've ever used, right up there with IBM Rational Atria ClearQuest or IBM Lotus Notes.

I have no idea what Rational Atria ClearQuest but the name alone tells me it's awful.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by JonFish85 »

20yrs_no_equity wrote: post #46
dlevine wrote: post #32

Congrats to the Hipmunk team! I've been using Hipmunk since the beginning, and have found it to be a pleasant way to search for flights. They obviously care a lot about creating a good experience for the customer, which is a lot more than I can say about the big travel sites. I hope that the team had a nice exit, and that they continue to develop Hipmunk within Concur.

Unless tech crunch got things very wrong, they didn't. The investors will get a base hit, the employees, nothing.

I bet the investors did OK. Some employees might get a nice retention package, but they'll have to sign a document stating their stock/options are now worth $0, so they can take or leave the retention deal.

The founders probably did OK, but they might have the same type of deal ($0 for their stock, except their retention is probably orders of magnitude better than any employee's).

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by SeeDave »

20yrs_no_equity wrote: post #45

My sincere condolences to all the option holding employees of Hipmunk who will not likely get back what they gave up in salary (due to liquidation preferences and the like, they will be lucky if they get anything, other than golden handcuffs.) 20 years and no equity has taught me that next time I do a start up, I want restricted stock, not options, with an exercise price of $0.01. Or founder stock. In fact, I think t…

I sense righteous bitterness in this post, understand that your life experiences actually happened and respect you enough to come to the conclusion that your response is completely and totally legitimate. Are you comfortable with sharing your life/entrepreneurship story as a HN, reddit, Medium, etc. post or reply to this comment? If not to "get it off your chest" and "move on" so much as to protect others?

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by raldi »

function_seven wrote: post #39
raldi wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you have a Bloomberg terminal, there's a function like this that's been around for decades. If I remember correctly (I haven't had access to one since 2007) it might have been FLTS or maybe just FLY . You plug in your cities and dates, and you get an 80x25 screen with the raw data in an easy-to-read (once you're used to it) tabular view. Of course, that only works if by "some dollars" you meant like $25,000/year.…

Adding this to my private list of reasons whenever someone scoffs at "paying $25k a year for a pair of LCDs and a cheap keyboard". Thanks.

Yeah you can be on the phone with the company travel department telling you the United flight at 10:13 doesn't fly between Dulles and New York on Tuesdays, and quickly type FLY IAD NYC and you'll see a line like

    12.    UA 456  10:13 IAD  11:35 LGA   vvvv vv
(Where the v's are checkmarks in day-of-week columns; so you know it flies every day but Thurs)

Then you type 12 and get all the details. It all happened as fast as you could type plus about 10msec plus the speed of light roundtrip to lower Manhattan. And in the nine years since I used it, I bet they added other points of presence on other continents.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by jmarbach »

bhaile wrote: post #40
jmarbach wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Disclaimer: I created Concorde. Concorde — Discover cheap flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide: https://concorde.io

Interesting. Played around with it. -What does creating an account provide? -Do you plan on allowing for filters by price, airline and alliance? -Do you pull in deals similar to what is in Flyertalk's Mileage Run forums since many are time limited there? -I'll be checking it for my next flight now. :)

Thanks for checking it out!

1. By creating an account, you can search from your home airport to hundreds of destinations worldwide. 2. Yes, the filters you propose are very achievable in the near-term, meaning that I already have the data, I just need to create the appropriate front-end for viewing it. 3. Exactly. The quality of the deal is intended to be mileage-run worthy, but not necessarily everyone wants to earn miles. I've found a lot of people just want a cheap and fun vacation spot that is somewhere far from home.

Please let me know if you have any thoughts or suggestions for improvement! Thanks!

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by x0x0 »

exelius wrote: post #47

Concur's core product is shockingly awful. My company recently switched to it, and I don't know anyone who actually uses it. Most of us have figured out we get lower prices and less hassle by just ordering directly from the airlines / hotels and booking them to or corporate credit cards. If you're in a hurry, we can just call AmEx travel and pay $30 for them to book the trip for us using their travel agent terminals…

I use Concur because my crappy corporate employer purchased it. My strong suspicion is anyone who matters makes his or her assistant use concur rather than doing it him/herself.

The product is absolutely awful. Like just stunningly bad.

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by op00to »

underyx wrote: post #20
rebelidealist wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the best flight search these days?

Disclaimer: I work at Kiwi.com. At https://kiwi.com we combine flights ourselves instead of just taking the combinations from the big guys, you should try it out with a few queries. Not being limited to airline agreements when connecting flights can really drive the price down or make obscure routes viable.

Who protects the consumer when weather or FAA traffic management makes you miss your connecting flight?

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by hueving »

jmarbach wrote: post #22
rebelidealist wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What is the best flight search these days?

Disclaimer: I created Concorde. Concorde — Discover cheap flights to hundreds of destinations worldwide: https://concorde.io

You mention mileage runs, but is there an option to only receive email alerts about cheap airfare for a particular airline?

Re: Hipmunk (YC S10) Acquired by Concur

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Post by grahamburger »

kylecordes wrote: post #42
grahamburger wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you tried flights.google.com?

Flights.google appears to have the same problem as the rest: * Awful, text list of flights. I want a way to visualize the options, to wisely choose from many options. * Subset of the airlines. Google still has Delta at least, which has disappeared from Hipmunk and some others. But no Southwest.

I thought their map / explore view was pretty good, actually [0]

Also I really like the flexible dates view [1]

Shame about Southwest for sure, but I think that's more on Southwest than anyone else (do they list their flights on any aggregator? I remember hearing somewhere that's part of their shtick is that they don't)

[0] http://imgur.com/GqRVfUG [1] http://imgur.com/Npnu7uU

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