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Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ankit219 »

nnd wrote: post #70
ankit219 wrote: post #53

I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are s…

Lots of people tried to tackle this problem before, what's your unique take on it?

A lot of solutions focused on building itineraries, and to me that is where they missed the mark. Planning and itinerary building is not a hassle, its part of the experience. People like an itinerary made for them, but they dont follow it, cos it feels like work routine. The hassle part is the struggle in finding the relevant information. All the blogs try to cater to everyone and hence arent that relevant for one person (results and articles arent personalized). Then the information is way too scattered so it takes time finding it. Third, most blogs and articles are written from conversion viewpoint so that decreases the reliability. We can solve all three.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by 100-xyz »

We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words.

Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a local web server. http://www.100-xyz.com

Looking for ideas on how to get customers/users. Suggestions, comments appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by notoriousjpg »

ankit219 wrote: post #53

I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are s…

Interesting. Which GDS are you integrating with in the background or are you using something like Skyscanner? How do you guarantee you are giving users the best price?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by ankit219 »

notoriousjpg wrote: post #83
ankit219 wrote: post #53

I am working on Blubyn - an AI powered travel agent helping users book flights and hotels quickly by personalizing results. Here is the link: http://onelink.to/blubyn (app only - available on both iOS and Android) Being an avid traveler, it has always bothered me that travel experience has remained almost the same over the years. We scout 50 websites to figure out where to go and what to do, where results/posts are s…

Interesting. Which GDS are you integrating with in the background or are you using something like Skyscanner? How do you guarantee you are giving users the best price?

Right now, its just Skyscanner and a couple of other vendors. We let go of our margin to ensure the lowest prices.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by wingerlang »

joemanaco wrote: post #19

I’m working on Tiny Thor: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGrNjyV5PhE It’s cool because it’s the game I always wanted to make since I was a teenager. What’s even cooler is that two heroes of my youth are doing it together with me: Henk Nieborg (Pixel Artist) and Chris Hülsbeck (Music).

Looks nice, the throwing looks a bit stiff.

How did you get together to work with those people? Do you have a nice track record and reached out, hired them or how does it happen? Mostly interested because you referred to them as your 'heroes' so the path towards them might be interesting.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by wingerlang »

100-xyz wrote: post #82

We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words. Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a loc…

The name is quite strange. Does it mean anything?

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by Rjevski »

100-xyz wrote: post #82

We just started sales for our product. Distributed about 30 flyers to restaurants and hair salons yesterday. Because it was the first time for us, it was quite a learning experience. Sales requires a much thicker skin and open ears. Also, because I am an American living in China, I had to learn some new technical words. Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages. Its a captive portal plus a loc…

> Our product lets your wifi guests land directly on your web pages

Aka the thing nobody ever asked for and why I don't even bother with public Wi-Fi anymore.

Your users are just looking for Wi-Fi and are already in your venue; your best interest is to not piss them off by wasting their time and instead offer a good, seamless Wi-Fi experience so they can move on and enjoy whatever they planned to do at your venue.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by jakobegger »

p0d wrote: post #61

What am I working on? I just replaced a resistor in my car’s aircon to fix it. Feeling mighty pleased with myself. Not the answer you were expecting but javascript wasn’t going to fix this bad boy ;-)

Was it the resistor that regulates fan speed?

That resistor usually burns out because the bearing of the fan doesn't work properly anymore, causing the fan to draw too much current. So if you don't replace the fan, that resistor will burn out again soon.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by Immortalin »

KloudTrader - A commission-free (flat-rate) algorithmic trading platform. Think of it as the Netlify or Heroku for computational finance. We provide a datafeed and a commission-free brokerage, not to mention server hosting. Basically everything you need to get started. Push to deploy.

Re: Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

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Post by Random_Person »

A simple reporting tool for tracking and reporting project/task activity.

It's cool because work requires me to submit an activity report each week and I wasn't about their terribly inefficient form, so I built a web-service to track my activities.

It's nothing special per-se, but it's significantly less complicated than other free options I've found for this sort of reporting and I like things that don't require me to learn how to use them.

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