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Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by fireworks10 »

divenorth wrote: post #17
r3dey3 wrote: post #3

Horribly broken url management.... selecting a city replaces the home page in history so you can't use the browser back button. Plus the search recommends locations nowhere close to the search term... and has like 15 total destinations.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I tried typing in Montreal and it took me to Seoul. Really frustrating actually.

Sorry about that. We need to work on a fallback for the autocomplete.

Also, I will add Montreal to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by exhilaration »

empath75 wrote: post #4

Sometimes off-season exists for a reason (ie: Rainy/Hurricane season)

This is true, but my October honeymoon in Puerto Rico - right in the middle of hurricane season - was amazing. Perfect weather combined with miles and miles of empty beaches on the island of Vieques all to ourselves. Airfare, car rental, hotel, meals for a week - it cost us right around $1k.

I mention this because even during the several months of hurricane season the weather is usually fine.

Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by fireworks10 »

aesthetics1 wrote: post #13
r3dey3 wrote: post #3

Horribly broken url management.... selecting a city replaces the home page in history so you can't use the browser back button. Plus the search recommends locations nowhere close to the search term... and has like 15 total destinations.

I noticed this as well. If you poke around, you can see that only 53 cities are currently available. I tried "Portland" and received "Orlando" as a suggestion. Looks like it uses some sort of half-baked search algorithm that looks for a close match, but does not work so well.

Sorry about that. You're right, we need to work on our autocomplete algo and set a fallback for unavailable cities.

I will add Portland to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by Mayzie »

fireworks10 wrote: post #24

Hey guys, co-founder and developer of Offpeak.io here. Let me know if I can answer any questions, and we greatly appreciate feedback.

When viewing the column chart for a particular city on mobile, you should add some animation when scrolling horizontally to switch months. At the moment it feels quite jagged and laggy. Perhaps make the action more obvious, too.

Apart from that, great work! I know my mother who pays attention to all things travel and tries to find the best deals will like using this site!

Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by Mayzie »

fireworks10 wrote: post #18
Giorgi wrote: post #8

http://offpeak.io/all-cities url broken to Istanbul Also, this site should definitely add Tbilisi, Georgia

Fixed the URL issue, thanks for alerting me of that. Will add Tbilisi to top of the list for the next cities we add as well.

Might want to think about a couple of cities in multiple regions around the world, rather than trying to complete a country as tourist typically season varies per region. For example, Africa (Cape Town [SA]) and Oceania (Sydney [AU], Brisbane [AU], Bali [Indonesia], Auckland [NZ], Suva [Fiji], Noumea [New Caledonia], Port Vila [Vanuatu]).

Re: Offpeak.io helps you avoid peak season to book the cheapest vacation

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Post by divenorth »

fireworks10 wrote: post #21
divenorth wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Came here to say the exact same thing. I tried typing in Montreal and it took me to Seoul. Really frustrating actually.

Sorry about that. We need to work on a fallback for the autocomplete. Also, I will add Montreal to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

It would make more sense to be able to select from a list of available cities instead of a broken auto complete.
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