Oh my god I love you
:D
I just signed up.. I fly Southwest all the time and this is a MAJOR pain point.. BRILLANT!!
If you do get shutdown.. will you honor the existing reservations made?
Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
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Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
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Brilliant idea! Mind if I do that? Also a lot of the checkins are early in the morning or late at night so maybe I should have an option for not texting if you don't want to be woken up from sleeping. Thanks again!
Go for it! I've signed up for alerts on my flights to/from TwilioCon next weekend. Don't let me down. ;)
I'll try!:)
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
#53Yeeah Nikil! Nice work!
Thanks ZG! :)
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
#54Southwest sues people who monetize this kind of product -- see a 2012 example at http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/03/02/Southwest-... or a 2007 example at http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm .
I'm not making money off of it. I just built it for myself and thought I would share
dude - this is a great idea. i always assume that you couldnt do this because southwest did not open their apis (aka why they are not in hipmunk, kayak, etc) how did you build it?
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
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That's true - okay good idea - I'll see if I can whip this up. Any ideas on the best way to receive and have a system to grab and parse email?
One method would be to setup a normal email address (even something like gmail) and on the server setup a cron job that connects to it via imap and downloads the messages. Probably not the nicest solution, but it might be easiest.
Cool - I'll try this
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not making money off of it. I just built it for myself and thought I would share
I don't think we've previously seen someone publicly offer this service for free. It'll be really interesting to see what the company does in response -- thanks for going out on a limb for us all to find out!
Glad to be guinea pig (Didn't really think that anyone besides myself would actually use this when I made the site) thanks !
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
#58With all the talk of you probably getting a C&D shortly, the real coup would be to release the code that does it for free. Can't imagine they can do much against that.
agreed. open source lives forever!
Yes open source this please.
or wait..why don't i spend an hour and write it myself.. ha
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not making money off of it. I just built it for myself and thought I would share
dude - this is a great idea. i always assume that you couldnt do this because southwest did not open their apis (aka why they are not in hipmunk, kayak, etc) how did you build it?
thanks! uh... I check everyone in manually?
Re: Automatically Check In To (get an awesome seat on) Your Next Southwest Flight
#60Now I wonder what happens if everyone on a flight signs up for this service. Who gets priority?
hey everyone..i wrote a program that automated posting to this service so you will be the first one in the sites queue.