The airport field in the find flights section doesn't recognize lower case airport codes. For example, "ord" doesn't work but "ORD" does. It should probably accept lower case as well.
Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
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Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
#122I like this.
Most large/successful aggregator travel sites feel like they've been "optimizing for revenue" for a long time. It's really informed the products in very fundamental way.
AirBnB is an example of vastly better than average design. But, even here I think the site has in recent years gradually been more focused around being "revenue-optimized." People browsing tree-houses in tropical rain forests they may one day visit is not optimal when compared to the "I need 3 beds in Milan next Thursday" people. To make your KPIs go up you need to direct those people who have their credit card out already to a thing that they will pay for now. This is not bad, but it does leave an opening.
Anyway... I think there is plenty of room for a travel site that emphasizes browsing. This site is fast and feels like it wants me to just browse.
Nicely done. I wish (and predict) you success, Kevin.
Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
#123Am I missing where to put in depart/return dates? I want to try to search for flights, but I keep getting that error message and I can't for the life of me find where to enter in my dates! Great looking aggregator otherwise.
Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
#124It was fun to see where I could go on my budget - but it listed my originating city twice. I get that people do "stay-cations" but for adventurous travel, probably not. ;)
Haha I agree, maybe we should exclude cities within -say- a 50km range :)
I had the same issue, actually. I enjoy the town I live in - I'm an immigrant - but my preference is to go to new locations.
The 50 mile (or km) radius is a good start, but I'd prefer it to be an adjustable radius or be able to toggle in country or out of country.
Of course, in-country only might be difficult if you aren't familiar with a country.
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#125One odd/sad thing is I put in Portland as the start location and 700 and the budget for 4 nights and it gives me some nice results that include... Portland. Probably safe to say I wouldn't want to stay in the city I'm leaving from.
Nice site though. Works well on mobile, and you're. It spamming me with ads like the other players do.
Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
#126Am I missing where to put in depart/return dates? I want to try to search for flights, but I keep getting that error message and I can't for the life of me find where to enter in my dates! Great looking aggregator otherwise.
The point is that you can find destinations based on your budget without being limited to certain dates. For cheap people (student) like me that are on a tight budget this is really awesome. :)
Ps. I really like how this thing is popping up everywhere, first YC group, after that PH and now HN.
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#127Wow! $800 for 10 days in London!
London, Canada, that is.
Though the wikivoyage.org link points at London, England.
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#128Wow, nice!
You can add hitchhiking option since it's popular in some parts of the world.
Overall: good job!
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#129The site is cool, but some questions:
None of the keyboard scrolling methods work. I can't use pgdown, arrow down, even the old school "space to scroll"
On search page, changing duration erases my budget, why? Just because I might be able to stay a day or two longer, or am willing to cut my stay short, doesn't mean my budget is changing.
What is the p.p. currency? On search page I set it to USD, yet I keep seeing it p.p. everywhere?
Once I open a location destination (why a new tab?), it forgets where I am flying from, so for flight search I have to retype my city.
Awesome page, this is what I was looking for, but few minor things need to be fixed up.
Re: Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
#130Hi guys! My brother and I would like to show you what we have been working on for the past 6 months. What started out as a little project to learn to code together has become a full-fledged travel tool to discover destinations you wouldn't directly think of. It's called DESTIGOGO :) We are curious about what you think and happy to answer any questions you have!
Hello,
I tried looking at an example trip, and when I asked it to show flights it popped up an error saying I needed to input the dates of the flight. There does not seem to be any field to pick the date in, though?