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

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Post by ivan_gammel »

kevinjoling wrote: post #49
ivan_gammel wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asking for airport may make sense, when there are 3 or 4 airports nearby (e.g. Moscow SVO,DME,VKO and ZIA). But that's a big question, why only travel by air considered (it's quite common and convenient to take night sleeper cars in Russia or Shinkansen in Japan).

In the additional travel options / filters there is an option "travel by" where you can select car! :D

As future improvement, it will also make sense to consider visa money/time costs (maintain matrix of visa-free destinations/visa costs/issue times) or at least add a note in UI that valid visa may be required to some destinations.

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

jonnyscholes wrote: post #29

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 t…

Thanks a lot Jonny!

Thanks for your suggestions! Since it is always questionable how much someone would spend (and very depending on the person itself) we didn't take into account cost of living. My brother and I had a few discussions about this since I wanted to show 'the whole package', but he convinced me to keep just keep it simple and add additional 'cost of living' info later on, at the destination page. For now I still agree with, he has some good points. Although it differs from person to person what is preferred.

Loading in results on page scroll should be really neat. I think it will speed up loading time tremendously, definately going to look into that!

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

notwhereyouare wrote: post #50

small bug, I ended up getting shown the same destination twice in a single search. I did a search by plane only, for 5 days, budget of 1200. Myrtle beach was shown twice

Ah thanks for mentioning! That's a bug indeed, think we duplicated Myrtle Beach. Will fix it :)

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #51
kevinjoling wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the additional travel options / filters there is an option "travel by" where you can select car! :D

As future improvement, it will also make sense to consider visa money/time costs (maintain matrix of visa-free destinations/visa costs/issue times) or at least add a note in UI that valid visa may be required to some destinations.

Thanks for mentioning! That's already on our list and we will implement soon, in addition we are planning to add a safety score or safety index - which is quite relevant at the moment..
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