Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
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Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
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Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#2Hmm.
I don't think the natural language input is a very good idea. It's very error prone and only works correctly if you actually know what language it supports. I tried it and it got confused. Also it didn't correctly recognize a three letter airport code that I used.
To be frank I've found that Kayak has the best interface for doing this and there's no need to select which sites to search, etc. The interface here does not seem like an improvement.
And maybe it's just me but when I hear 'peedo' I think paedophile and so this company sounds like its name is 'try paedo' to me.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#3Also opening a couple dozen new browser windows is a good way to ensure your site is only used once.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#4I don't like the pop ups, I want comparable data not 20 different pages, all of which I have to dig through before I get my information.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#5I for one welcome our new meta meta meta travel search engine overlords. :)
It worked really well for me. I loved the natural language search, one of the things that beats me down with travel search engines is having to select my date on their little calenders and then figuring out the airport codes of the airports I want to go into.
The 2 dozen browser tabs were pretty neat, on a low memory machine that might get annoying, but for my pc it was smooth.
One recommendation I have on the natural language sort is to have it recognize times of day i want to leave like morning, afternoon, etc
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#6If you are going to create a new site in this space it has to be at least as good as Kayak. Tripeedo fails horribly. As others have mentioned, a site that simply opens numerous windows with the results from each site is not adequate.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#7I don't like the pop ups, I want comparable data not 20 different pages, all of which I have to dig through before I get my information.
agreed-- but until airlines open up their fare data via APIs, users can only truly get all data by actually searching individual sites. even meta-search sites like Kayak don't have access to all fares, which is why results often vary between the various sites. tripeedo is a step toward making that process more simple.
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#8I for one welcome our new meta meta meta travel search engine overlords. :) It worked really well for me. I loved the natural language search, one of the things that beats me down with travel search engines is having to select my date on their little calenders and then figuring out the airport codes of the airports I want to go into. The 2 dozen browser tabs were pretty neat, on a low memory machine that might get an…
glad you like it, and thanks for the suggestion. time of day is a parameter we'll definitely be adding soon. (it's actually one of the trickier ones to implement).
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#9Also opening a couple dozen new browser windows is a good way to ensure your site is only used once.
Normally I'd agree, but in this case it is exactly what I wanted!
Re: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]
#10Awesome UI. I'm blown away.