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

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Post by kevinjoling »

EA wrote: post #23

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.

Oh, that could be. We don't take into account specific airports but just calculate an average flightprice. When we tested, most of the time actual flights were cheaper then the average price we stated (but that was tested from Schiphol Airport Amsterdam, since we are from the Netherlands)

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

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Post by mjolk »

This is great; you should be proud!

- There's a slight CSS issue on buttons not clearing text: http://imgur.com/a/FVvj8

- As I've entered my area, it would be useful if the "from airport" on the result page would default to "area airports"

- I'd like a map view of the destinations

- I'd like to be able to filter the lodging accommodations based on stars and type (personal home, BnB, hotel) as there are some regions in the world that I've learned to only use hotels when it's sight-unseen and without recommendation

Congrats again!

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

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Post by jonnyscholes »

hamhamed wrote: post #28

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

Can you suggest (genuinely interested) something similar that isn't a) bloated with ads b) clearly affiliated with an airline/travel agent or c) is budget driven (high or low) - not "cheap airfare" or "cheap accom" driven? I've looked before and am yet to find something good...

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

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Post by jfoster »

Really attractive design. One thing that was a bit annoying on mobile was that there was several prompts all at once. (location, add to home, etc.) Location prompt makes sense, but you may want to save the add to home prompt for a little bit later.

I see that you're using Booking & Skyscanner, so maybe it's one of those, but where do the beautiful destination images come from?

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

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Post by hamhamed »

jonnyscholes wrote: post #33
hamhamed wrote: post #28

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

Can you suggest (genuinely interested) something similar that isn't a) bloated with ads b) clearly affiliated with an airline/travel agent or c) is budget driven (high or low) - not "cheap airfare" or "cheap accom" driven? I've looked before and am yet to find something good...

I think Tripnary is doing a great job at it, though probably failing because it's a hard business to start with (they haven't updated their app since last year)

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

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Post by mr337 »

So found an issues, for places that don't have flights it never pops up the dates. Then when I click "Search Flights", I get a validation error for not selecting dates.

Pulling my hair I finally found a destination that had flights and the date selector displayed correctly.

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

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Post by no_protocol »

mjolk wrote: post #32

This is great; you should be proud! - There's a slight CSS issue on buttons not clearing text: http://imgur.com/a/FVvj8 - As I've entered my area, it would be useful if the "from airport" on the result page would default to "area airports" - I'd like a map view of the destinations - I'd like to be able to filter the lodging accommodations based on stars and type (personal home, BnB, hotel) as there are some regions i…

> - I'd like a map view of the destinations

I'm normally a huge map fan, but I actually like it the way it is, without a map. I had this cool moment where I thought, "It doesn't matter where in the world it is, as long as it is under your budget."

I haven't figured out how to pass all the menus after clicking a destination. I typed in an airport and clicked Search Flights, but it complains that I haven't entered dates. Can't find a place to enter them.

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

no_protocol wrote: post #37
mjolk wrote: post #32

This is great; you should be proud! - There's a slight CSS issue on buttons not clearing text: http://imgur.com/a/FVvj8 - As I've entered my area, it would be useful if the "from airport" on the result page would default to "area airports" - I'd like a map view of the destinations - I'd like to be able to filter the lodging accommodations based on stars and type (personal home, BnB, hotel) as there are some regions i…

> - I'd like a map view of the destinations I'm normally a huge map fan, but I actually like it the way it is, without a map. I had this cool moment where I thought, "It doesn't matter where in the world it is, as long as it is under your budget." I haven't figured out how to pass all the menus after clicking a destination. I typed in an airport and clicked Search Flights, but it complains that I haven't entered date…

Thank you! Ahh we have a bug over there!

If you type your airport or place where you want to fly from and select an option out the suggestion dropdown you should be able to select the dates!

Thanks for the feedback, we will solve this!

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