Travel planning is so time consuming, this seems the right way to search for a trip. I've been using www.tripaya.com for a while, and love their user experience, it's like I'm already traveling. Good luck guys, travel industry real needs disruptive solutions!
Apply HN: Wanderlust – Travel recommendations based on your budget and interests
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Re: Apply HN: Wanderlust – Travel recommendations based on your budget and interests
#22From my experience, there are 3 kinds of traveller: 1. People who know where they are going for a stipulated period of time 2. People who know which region they are going to over a long period of time 3. People who have taken a sabbatical or couple of years off or have decided that they are going to be on road for a long period of time. For #1 - hotel and flight deals matter the most For #2 - they figure out most of…
Your characterization of travellers seems a bit off to me. Along those dimensions, there'd be at least two or three other categories of travellers. Not sure how to respond to that. As for monetization: we don't plan to rush this. Once we have our recommendation engine built out and fleshed out, we will build business around it. But to optimize for revenue in the short term would probably be to diminish our chances in…
I agree that the parent comment's three types of travelers isn't quite right -- I'm curious to hear what the archetypes that you have in mind are though.
[I'm a huge fan of spontaneous travel and have some side projects in travel destination/activity discovery myself. Happy to chat more via email.]
Re: Apply HN: Wanderlust – Travel recommendations based on your budget and interests
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your characterization of travellers seems a bit off to me. Along those dimensions, there'd be at least two or three other categories of travellers. Not sure how to respond to that. As for monetization: we don't plan to rush this. Once we have our recommendation engine built out and fleshed out, we will build business around it. But to optimize for revenue in the short term would probably be to diminish our chances in…
I agree that the parent comment's three types of travelers isn't quite right -- I'm curious to hear what the archetypes that you have in mind are though. [I'm a huge fan of spontaneous travel and have some side projects in travel destination/activity discovery myself. Happy to chat more via email.]
I think most travelers would probably fall in either one of these three categories:
Those that know where they'd like to go, how much they'd like to spend, and when they'd like to travel. (Traditional OTAs cater well to this category of people)
Those that know where they'd like to go and how much they'd like to spend, but don't know when they they'd like to travel. (e.g. When it would be cheapest to fly out; one solution that does a pretty good job of addressing this is Hitlist http://techcrunch.com/2014/02/07/hitlist-a-smarter-flight-fi...)
Those that don't know where to go, but do know how much they'd like to spend, and when they'd like to travel. (This would be the category we're addressing)
Along the 'where', '$', and 'when' dimensions, there would clearly be more combinations possible (i.e. 8), but the majority should fall in the three listed above. And sure, feel free to drop me a line at aron@wanderlust.ly -- always curious to hear about how others are thinking about this!
Re: Apply HN: Wanderlust – Travel recommendations based on your budget and interests
#24Previous submission https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448307