FlightCaster (YC S09) Takes Off With $1.3 Million In Funding And A New API
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#2Congrats, the b2b partnerships sounds like a solid business model. Plus it'd be easier to charge a frequently travelling exec for the service then the average consumer.
Hopefully the service can expand outside of the US. I see the limited/varied data of each country as the biggest technical hurdle they'll have to overcome.
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#4Congrats, guys! I did quite a bit of traveling recently, and I found myself checking FlightCaster for a peace of mind. Great team, and a great product!
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#5Congrats
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#6Clojure's first big success story! (beyond the how fantastic the language is itself :)
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#7Flightcaster manages to predict ten times as many delays as the airlines do.
What does this mean? Do the airlines know about the potential delays but are unwilling to tell the public in most cases?
If Flightcaster really does have better tech than the airlines, then their major customers should be the airlines.
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#8Flightcaster manages to predict ten times as many delays as the airlines do. And they manage to stay 90% accurate (which is on par with the airlines).
They're equally accurate, but predict ten times as many delays? Doesn't that imply that only a negligible percentage of flights are successfully predicted as delayed by either party?
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#9Congrats guys! Glad to see that I'll still be able to use the service well into the future :)
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#10I saw this comment on the WSJ - *
This is an intriguing idea, but the problem I see is that airlines will not rebook you (fee-free, at least) until their own internal procedures have declared a delay or cancellation of a flight. By that point having the intel becomes useless.
Seems like a good point