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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.
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You can get the same info by typing "flight schedule iad nyc" into Google. It gives you a box that shows all flight numbers, takeoff and landing times, airport codes, and which days of the week they fly. (You might need to disable adblock though.)
I just tried that and indeed had to disable uBlock for it to show up. I wonder how many other Google features I have been missing out on due to adblock being turned on... Edit: turning off 'cosmetic filtering' on uBlock put it back again.
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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.
Hipmunk has been an excellent flight search tool, the best I have found as of a few years ago. Shockingly better than most of the rest of them back when it started, in terms of being able to understand and choose among numerous choices. Unfortunately, that was then and this is now. Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly littl…
There are services growing in popularity for this. (I don't have any affiliation, I've heard good things, and want to try it.) https://www.flystein.com
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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.
You pay with your money, right?
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> Several of the airlines have dropped out of participating in flight comparison sites, and those that do apparently pay staggeringly little per referral. This is greatly eroded the usefulness of Hipmunk and similar sites, and taken away the motivation for anyone to pressure airlines to participate. This sounds like something for the Justice Department to get involved in.
What the fuck are you talking about? How does that have anything to do with the justic department at all?
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Even in 2010 when they started, air bookings didn't have enough margin to pay a decent commission. Flights gets people in the door, but you need to sell them a hotel to make money.
There's plenty of money being made in flights but it requires serious volume. Hipmunk were never able to take enough traffic away from kayak, skyscanner etc. as their only real differentiation (agony search) wasn't a big enough pull (other than for a sub section of business flyers who didn't have a travel implant to outsource the leg work to). They also didn't put any serious energy in to markets outside the US (much…
Um, ground-breaking search visualisation UI? Or am I missing something?
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You pay with your money, right?
I don't understand the question. Yeah, you (royal "you") pay with money. I don't pay for it, since I wouldn't get the value out of it.
I don't scoff. But I can't afford it. By the way, the guy who said Google "flight schedule LAX ORD" did a great service here.
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I don't understand the question. Yeah, you (royal "you") pay with money. I don't pay for it, since I wouldn't get the value out of it.
We clearly don't understand each other. You say "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". I think, "his work is paying the 25k." I don't scoff. But I can't afford it. By the way, the guy who said Google "flight schedule LAX ORD" did a great service here.
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?
One of the reasons I'm not bitter is that the VC industry is dying. IT's not obvious yet, but like the headphone jack, its days are numbered.