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Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by sofixa »

Oh wow, looks really interesting! Great job! Out of curiosity, where do you get the data from ?

Some feedback:

* it'd be practical to be able to set an end date

* considering the type of visitor, a small link to Wikitravel/Wikivoyage or something could be useful to help decide

* i think that if you use referral links to flight and hotel booking platforms, at least some would use them ( i know i would) and that way help with dev/maintenance/hosting costs

Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by stefuuuun »

sofixa wrote: post #2

Oh wow, looks really interesting! Great job! Out of curiosity, where do you get the data from ? Some feedback: * it'd be practical to be able to set an end date * considering the type of visitor, a small link to Wikitravel/Wikivoyage or something could be useful to help decide * i think that if you use referral links to flight and hotel booking platforms, at least some would use them ( i know i would) and that way he…

Thanks for your feedback!

I'm using different sources for the data.

- flight and location data: Tequila by Kiwi (which supports affiliate links) - location data: Geonames - pictures: Unsplash - hotels: booking.com api (which also supports affiliate links) - food, transport, activites: a few sources combined and averaged out (Wikivoyage being one of them)

Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by stefuuuun »

rdtwo wrote: post #5

I type in 5k and in get like 60-90 days in the 2nd/3rd world…. I don’t get it what’s the point? Why wouldn’t you show me a week or 2 long packages with a brief description of what’s included?

Probably personal preference. I'd probably enjoy a few months in 2nd world more than a week in Paris, but that's not the point. It just tells you destinations (cities) you could visit within your budget and the max trip length. However, I still want to make it more usable to users with specific preferences by adding custom filters and sorting.

Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by atiernanberry »

I really like the concept. Two things with the “flying from” input:

- The name and airplane icon made me think I should be entering an airport but the search results are for cities.

- It might be worth putting the country at the end of the city name, searching for “Birmingham”, for example, gives three results and no way to tell which is which

Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by stefuuuun »

atiernanberry wrote: post #7

I really like the concept. Two things with the “flying from” input: - The name and airplane icon made me think I should be entering an airport but the search results are for cities. - It might be worth putting the country at the end of the city name, searching for “Birmingham”, for example, gives three results and no way to tell which is which

Good point, just pushed an update! (Now it's only two indistinguishable Birminghams haha should probably add states as well)

Re: Show HN: Find destinations fitting your budget

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Post by stefuuuun »

FlyNestor wrote: post #9

I like the clear and simple design. Some criticism though: for 50$ you got a budget hotel in Moscow, not a mid-class

Thanks! I think I understood mid-class as 3-star hotels, so that's what the average price of 3-stars and ok+ rating in Moscow is (booking.com data). Should have written 3-stars instead of mid-class I guess.
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