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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by xvector »

malfist wrote: post #132
bodhiJhawken wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flighty is generally built around supporting your flight experience. I’m a touring lighting designer, and I spend a fairly large portion of my life in the air. Myself and most other touring crew I know adore Flighty. We get precious few hours to sleep, and being able to sleep in a few extra hours due to delays or spend an extra 30 minutes in the lounge eating and showing makes the difference between a good show and a…

You created this account 14 minutes prior to this post. Forgive me if I don't trust your testimonials. Feels very astroturf

Take it from an older account then. Flighty has been amazing, I can attest to every point above (except sleeping in airports, I don't do that)

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by atonse »

bodhiJhawken wrote: post #131
HarHarVeryFunny wrote: post #127

I'm not sure the use case for this. It seems the information provided is just number of on-time/delayed/cancelled flights, but how is the user meant to use that information? Check before booking flight and choose another airport it it has more on-time flights? I think most people are just going to fly out of the nearest/most convenient airport and hope for the best. I was hoping this might have information about leng…

Flighty is generally built around supporting your flight experience. I’m a touring lighting designer, and I spend a fairly large portion of my life in the air. Myself and most other touring crew I know adore Flighty. We get precious few hours to sleep, and being able to sleep in a few extra hours due to delays or spend an extra 30 minutes in the lounge eating and showing makes the difference between a good show and a…

I travel 4-5 trips a year and I didn't hesitate for a second to pay for Flighty, because this was one of those "man these guys deserve to be rewarded for the amazing job they've done"

I have had at least 2-3 situations where Flighty gave me information before the airport did, and that I ended up being a guy informing a few fellow passengers on the status of our flight before the airlines did.

They've chosen a niche, have executed extremely well, and I'm happy to throw $50/year at them to say thank you for an excellent product that does everything I want.

My ONLY complaint is that during a flight, flighty's live activity or something uses up a TON of battery. It seems unlike them to overlook such a thing when the rest of the app has such a polish and attention to detail (form and function-wise)

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by bzillins »

malfist wrote: post #132
bodhiJhawken wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Flighty is generally built around supporting your flight experience. I’m a touring lighting designer, and I spend a fairly large portion of my life in the air. Myself and most other touring crew I know adore Flighty. We get precious few hours to sleep, and being able to sleep in a few extra hours due to delays or spend an extra 30 minutes in the lounge eating and showing makes the difference between a good show and a…

You created this account 14 minutes prior to this post. Forgive me if I don't trust your testimonials. Feels very astroturf

Flighty was recommended to me by a flight attendant and I also have been notified hours ahead of the airlines by it.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by elAhmo »

Flighty is nearly useless when using low-cost carriers, such as RyanAir, WizzAir, etc, which seem to be predominantly covering destinations I use.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by culopatin »

littlecranky67 wrote: post #89
culopatin wrote: post #69

How does an app like this make money? I made an app that I simply can’t promote because it would bankrupt me. Every person I share it with thinks it’s genius and been using it but if it ever hits critical mass without me knowing it, id be those guys with the “my cloud provider reamed me overnight” posts.

Why does everything have to make money? People like to built things as a hobby. If you stay away from expensive cloud providers and use cheap vServers, you can host a site like that for around 5-20$/month (depending on number of users).

You don’t know anything about my app though. I just couldn’t believe that many people would pay this subscription to keep it going. I’m not trying to make money, I just don’t need it to drain my account

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by fourwood »

friendzis wrote: post #98
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is duration important? Surely you already knew what it was when you booked and it's not like it changes. I can't say that I've ever wanted to double check the duration of my flight.

Knowing when I land, especially if there are any disturbances, is probably THE most important piece of information with regards to a flight. I have already planned my airport arrival, at least for the first leg, and the worst scenario is I have to stare at a screen/book for a bit longer. If the landing is delayed I might need to make amendments to the plans for the rest of the day.

The complaint is about the visibility of the flight duration (e.g. "this flight will take 1h 50m"), not the landing time (e.g. "this flight will land at 11:25am"). The landing time is prominently displayed in the flight info pane. Knowing your flight duration (gate-to-gate time) is not impacted whatsoever by flight delays, so I think you're conflating these two things inappropriately.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by culopatin »

WaxProlix wrote: post #83
culopatin wrote: post #69

How does an app like this make money? I made an app that I simply can’t promote because it would bankrupt me. Every person I share it with thinks it’s genius and been using it but if it ever hits critical mass without me knowing it, id be those guys with the “my cloud provider reamed me overnight” posts.

Ads? It's not great for users but it's decent monetization. If you really have something good, like actually liked, you can do a donation vs ad-supported model.

I’ve ran the numbers and the APIs I have to pay for would be more expensive. I’ve tried caching the data which works to some degree but still a negative unless I really degrade the experience

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by culopatin »

woadwarrior01 wrote: post #117
culopatin wrote: post #69

How does an app like this make money? I made an app that I simply can’t promote because it would bankrupt me. Every person I share it with thinks it’s genius and been using it but if it ever hits critical mass without me knowing it, id be those guys with the “my cloud provider reamed me overnight” posts.

Subscriptions on the iOS app. Per SensorTower, it's making ~$1m/month. https://app.sensortower.com/overview/1358823008?country=US

That to me is amazing. I would not pay that much for this and I guess I project that on the user base

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by friendzis »

phinnaeus wrote: post #8
pinkmuffinere wrote: post #3

I think this may be a 'bug': as you zoom into the US west coast, SAN is visible before LAX. But LAX serves much more people every day, so a random person is much more likely to care about LAX. Intuitively, it seems to me that LAX should show up first. That could be intentional, but I can't think of a good reason why that choice would be made.

Similar in Australia, BNE shows up before SYD. Edit: actually it's even weirder. Here's the zoom levels I see, from zoomed out, to zoomed in: - BNE, MEL - BNE, SYD, MEL - BNE, CBR, MEL (??) - BNE, SYD, CBR, MEL

This screams vibe-coded slop. Think about it, if you were to implement zoom based detail level, you would have to try hard to introduce a bug on line 3, yet it happens to hit prod.

Yet, this thread is full of people defending this pre-alpha quality thing.

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