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Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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post #60

This reminds me of Magic ( https://magic.gd ) or Fin (now defunct, https://fin.com - a closer match, with a similar if broader mission). Hopefully the narrower scope will allow you to escape the issues that Fin ran into, trying to bolster their team. :) Magic has fixed pricing for some tasks, including travel booking I believe - so hopefully Carry is (or becomes) either less expensive or higher quality.

Is this the same Magic?

https://getmagic.com/

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

#62

This reminds me of that robo company that you could text anything you wanted to and they would book/figure it out for you. Love that you are honing your focus in to Slack and Travel. Goodluck!

Are you talking about Magic [0]? I've used it a few times for rather esoteric items and had great experiences. (Both were booking appointments at government agencies with awful reservation systems that often were overbooked or limited availability — TSA global entry appointments and DMV appointments. It cost about $30 each time.) [0] http://getmagic.com

Ahh, magic: the guys that stiffed me on $1,500 and then flew the entire company to the Philippines. Been dodging me for two years. They're still around and scheming, huh? Still operating out of the cardio room of that gym, I wonder?

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

#63
post #60

This reminds me of Magic ( https://magic.gd ) or Fin (now defunct, https://fin.com - a closer match, with a similar if broader mission). Hopefully the narrower scope will allow you to escape the issues that Fin ran into, trying to bolster their team. :) Magic has fixed pricing for some tasks, including travel booking I believe - so hopefully Carry is (or becomes) either less expensive or higher quality.

Is this the same Magic? https://getmagic.com/

Yes, that's the same Magic. I think https://getmagic.com is their main URL, but I have magic.gd in muscle memory since it's shorter. :P

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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post #47

"70% of corporate travel is booked without any tool or agency" That always bothered me. We used this middle man agency ... there was no savings, I still just booked it myself for the most part. I just had to use their crappy site. I did not understand the point of that, but man it was policy.

Don't you think it was policy so they can capture the information and get reporting?

Oh I have no doubt.

I write some software that involves accounting. Surprising how they drive A LOT of things. Sometimes a bit too much...

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

#65
> We found that no one actually wants to use these tools— they just have to, and that the only people who were satisfied with the state of things were folks who had assistants they could offload the work onto.

I suspect this is the case with a lot of business / enterprise software.

Congrats on the launch. I think this space (software assisted services that rely on Slack / SMS / email) is a promising one. Best of luck!

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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post #47

"70% of corporate travel is booked without any tool or agency" That always bothered me. We used this middle man agency ... there was no savings, I still just booked it myself for the most part. I just had to use their crappy site. I did not understand the point of that, but man it was policy.

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Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

#68
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Here's a killer feature everyone wants: I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets. Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation. Nobody lets you do this.

Kiwi.com is actually really good at this. You can select flexible departure and return date, flexible departure location (eg. list of airports or simply a radius around your home) or even find the cheapest dates if you wanna stay for 3-5 nights. The features of search are best I have ever seen.

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

#69
post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is this the same Magic? https://getmagic.com/

Yes, that's the same Magic. I think https://getmagic.com is their main URL, but I have magic.gd in muscle memory since it's shorter. :P

For some reason I get 502 Bad Gateway when clicking your magic.gd link but entering magic.gd manually works.

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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post #60

This reminds me of Magic ( https://magic.gd ) or Fin (now defunct, https://fin.com - a closer match, with a similar if broader mission). Hopefully the narrower scope will allow you to escape the issues that Fin ran into, trying to bolster their team. :) Magic has fixed pricing for some tasks, including travel booking I believe - so hopefully Carry is (or becomes) either less expensive or higher quality.

We too are hopeful that the narrower scope will allow our economics to work out!
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