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

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Post by kevinjoling »

mjolk wrote: post #46
kevinjoling wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you mjolk! :) - Have you tried pushing the more info button? When you do, it wil scroll down. - Ah yeah, do you mean showing a list of nearby airports? We are working on that one :) - Allright, i'll write that down! - True, that would add a lot of value in terms of UX. We have that planned for the near future. Thank you for your feedback!

I hadn't tried that, but where it was full opacity on both and where I could see the end of the text, I just assumed it was a little UX issue. Either a list of nearby airports or do metropolitan radius (e.g. NYC means LGA, JFK, sometimes Newark). And no worries. Launching is a big win.

Yeah it depends on the length of the text. Sometimes it looks a bit weird, so i agree that it is a little UX issue.

We are planning to work that out soon :)

Thanks a lot for your feedback mjolk.

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

mrcodedude wrote: post #69
dandandan wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In general I would agree, but we thought this could be a nice way to reach out and thank the people who supported us today :)

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

chiph wrote: post #60

It was fun to see where I could go on my budget - but it listed my originating city twice. I get that people do "stay-cations" but for adventurous travel, probably not. ;)

Haha I agree, maybe we should exclude cities within -say- a 50km range :)

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

tbronchain wrote: post #21

Really cool tool. I was thinking about a similar project since a while, you built it, please keep it going! Small side note, I'm not sure if it's because of the mobile version but I find it would be great to have some more details about the exact way you've found to go there (for example, when it shows the car are transportation way, how does it get this price? Is it oil price or also tolls or shared car or public tr…

Thanks, we will! :)

Some great additional options you mention there. For now, we have chosen to take averages for most of things to keep things simple and don't have the user to think about every detail. Besides, these variables differ heavily (oil prices per country differ, fuel consumption per car too, etc.)

Visa information is a think we have planned to add very soon :) Also more additional information like that we are planning to implement soon :D

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

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Post by kevinjoling »

nkrode wrote: post #26
kevinjoling wrote: post #2

Hi guys! My brother and I would like to show you what we have been working on for the past 6 months. What started out as a little project to learn to code together has become a full-fledged travel tool to discover destinations you wouldn't directly think of. It's called DESTIGOGO :) We are curious about what you think and happy to answer any questions you have!

Looks awesome, keep it going!

Thank you!!

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

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Post by clay_to_n »

kevinjoling wrote: post #63
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 p…

Best practice is to not ask for permissions upon first page load - too many people will leave immediately.

Instead, ask for them when they are relevant - for location, maybe once they click the "From" box.

For notifications, build your own in-app message explaining why the user wants notifications. If they "Accept" your own box, show them the actual notification request.

Many people, especially HN users, will have ill-will against a site that immediately wants to send pop-ups to their browsers. It feels too much like spam, trying to catch unaware users. If you explain why first, it's less intrusive.

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

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Post by NamTaf »

Brisbane, 10 days, AUD$3000 hangs Firefox and I had to crash out (50.1.0 x64 EME-free). It doesn't if I drop the price cap down to AUD$1500. It doesn't if I do the same search in Chrome, though the scrollbar becomes very small. Chrome reports that I'm able to search 589 destinations once it's done loading.

I suspect Firefox doesn't handle such a large number of results well.

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