Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding • Hacker News Board

Yes, my name is Adomas Baltagalvis and I'm one of the co-founders of Eddy Travels. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to share them with me.

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by adomasb » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 11:38 AM UTC

Hi everyone!

My name is Adomas Baltagalvis and I'm the co-founder and CMO of Eddy Travels.

Eddy Travels is an AI-powered travel assistant that helps people plan their trips more easily. Travelers can send text or voice messages to the digital assistant and receive personalized suggestions for the best flights, hotels, car rentals, and other services in seconds.

Some things you can try: "Flights from Toronto to New York in August" "Hotel in Berlin on September 21 - 27" "Italian restaurants in London"

And if you have any questions or feedback, please do share them with me. Thanks!

Adomas

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by eddylt » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 11:49 AM UTC

lucasverra wrote: post #2

are you the builder of this ?

Lucas, our whole Eddy Travels team is watching this thread for HN community feedback :) - Edmundas, C-Founder and CEO

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by lucasverra » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 11:59 AM UTC

adomasb wrote: post #3

lucasverra wrote: post #2

are you the builder of this ?

Hi Lucas! Yes, my name is Adomas Baltagalvis and I'm one of the co-founders of Eddy Travels. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to share them with me.

first: on a backend point of view, how did you manage to automate the questions answers on whatsapp front ? Do you guys have an authorized access to whatsapp API? or you hooked an android device with WA business and the device recieves/send and then bridges to somewhere else (your actual endpoint) ?

ps: im interested as fellow founder and avid traveller.

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by eddylt » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

lucasverra wrote: post #6

adomasb wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hi Lucas! Yes, my name is Adomas Baltagalvis and I'm one of the co-founders of Eddy Travels. If you have any questions or feedback, feel free to share them with me.

first: on a backend point of view, how did you manage to automate the questions answers on whatsapp front ? Do you guys have an authorized access to whatsapp API? or you hooked an android device with WA business and the device recieves/send and then bridges to somewhere else (your actual endpoint) ? ps: im interested as fellow founder and avid traveller.

Thanks for the questions, Lucas. It's a standard chatbot setup - and yes, we have authorized access. We had to apply and answer all kinds of questions about our business and use case to be approved by WhatsApp. The actual integration is done via Smooch.io. Does this answer your question?

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by sandeeptodi » Mon, Jul 08, 2019, 7:10 PM UTC

Tried it on whatsapp, pretty good in throwing up options, and as fast as a regular travel site. The good part is that (I guess) they try to show only the best options so you can choose quickly, instead of the hundreds that ticketing sites generally throw up.

Re: Show HN: Eddy Travels – AI travel assistant on WhatsApp with voice understanding

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Post by adomasb » Tue, Jul 09, 2019, 2:57 AM UTC

sandeeptodi wrote: post #8

Tried it on whatsapp, pretty good in throwing up options, and as fast as a regular travel site. The good part is that (I guess) they try to show only the best options so you can choose quickly, instead of the hundreds that ticketing sites generally throw up.

Thank you for checking it out! And yes, the system analyses hundreds of different flight options but only shows the best ones based on different criteria.