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

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Post by kevinjoling »

jfoster wrote: post #34

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?

Thanks a lot! :) I get your point, it really is a bit annoying. Fortunately these are only shown once haha.

Yes that's true, but we are only using them for flights and hotels.

The images come from Shutterstock. Firstly we hand curated 650+ destinations, then we hand picked all the images and bought them at shutterstock :') They are all beautiful, but it was a real pain in the ass selecting them haha. We did like 50 pics in 3 hours..

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

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Post by dandandan »

ivan_gammel wrote: post #45

Good idea, but: 1. upon loading, the web site immediately asks permissions for sending notifications and access to my location - that's too early and because of that, of course, "No, thanks". Notifications about what? Location - why? Since it's not mobile app and I didn't read the description before installing it, the request should be done only after some explanation of service is provided. 2. False data (and this r…

Turns out it's notifications about their run on ProductHunt, etc. I just got one an hour after closing the tab.

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

mr337 wrote: post #36

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.

Oh that's something we hadn't discovered yet! Thanks, will work on that one!

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

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Post by jonnyscholes »

kevinjoling wrote: post #53
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 no…

Yeah fair call - it would be a hard one to nail! Keep up the rad work :D

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

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Post by mrcodedude »

dandandan wrote: post #65
ivan_gammel wrote: post #45

Good idea, but: 1. upon loading, the web site immediately asks permissions for sending notifications and access to my location - that's too early and because of that, of course, "No, thanks". Notifications about what? Location - why? Since it's not mobile app and I didn't read the description before installing it, the request should be done only after some explanation of service is provided. 2. False data (and this r…

Turns out it's notifications about their run on ProductHunt, etc. I just got one an hour after closing the tab.

Easiest way for me to never visit a site again.

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

dandandan wrote: post #65
ivan_gammel wrote: post #45

Good idea, but: 1. upon loading, the web site immediately asks permissions for sending notifications and access to my location - that's too early and because of that, of course, "No, thanks". Notifications about what? Location - why? Since it's not mobile app and I didn't read the description before installing it, the request should be done only after some explanation of service is provided. 2. False data (and this r…

Turns out it's notifications about their run on ProductHunt, etc. I just got one an hour after closing the tab.

That's true, we launched on ProductHunt today and wanted to thank all the people who supported us this way :)
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