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Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by sdinsn »

cptaj wrote: post #15

Here's a killer feature everyone wants: I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets. Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation. Nobody lets you do this.

Google Flights does this

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by tejasmanohar »

atian wrote: post #18

I would use this if you had a Bloomberg integration, and maybe if I could share my itinerary through it. I sit on it all day except for activities to upkeep my wellbeing.

Founder here.

This is interesting! One of our friends in finance recently suggested this, too. We don't have access to a Bloomberg terminal, but we wanna look into this. Do you (or anyone else) know what it takes to ship an integration on the Bloomberg terminal? Will email you (from your profile) after the HN buzz, too :)

Also, @HN we're currently on Slack/SMS/email but if you have other platforms you'd suggest, let us know here. WhatsApp has definitely come up for some of our friends in India.

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by kashishg »

sealthedeal wrote: post #16
kashishg wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, flights/travel is so mission critical that we don't see "AI" taking over this workflow anytime soon. There will be a real person verifying every decision for the near and medium-term future. The automation component helps these real-people make decisions faster (ideal case is 30 seconds or less once it gets really good)

Linking to their Calendar would be interesting so you can know their business schedule.

Yes! We're working on the calendar integration :) We find that several business users will omit calendar because of privacy or because they don't keep them up to date, but power users of GCal would love this I think

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by bvssatish »

cptaj wrote: post #15

Here's a killer feature everyone wants: I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets. Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation. Nobody lets you do this.

Check out https://www.skyscanner.com/.

Allows at the month level.

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by donjoe »

cptaj wrote: post #15

Here's a killer feature everyone wants: I want to put a date range and get the cheapest plane tickets. Big range, I want to find the cheapest time of the year to fly and plan my vacation. Nobody lets you do this.

Momondo.com does it, Cheaptickets.de as well.

Whenever I talk to my friends from the States I get the feeling no one compares flight prices. Most of them book with 'their' fav airline of choice without comparing different options.

Re: Launch HN: Carry (YC S19) – We Book Travel for You on Slack

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Post by kashishg »

dbuxton wrote: post #25

We use a similar YC company for corporate travel, flightfox.com. I can't tell you how much money we save by enforcing corporate policies and letting them use lots of tricks to get the best possible rates.

We've heard a lot about flightfox! We're focused employee-first so that we can build a tool that employees their managers for, but that being said, several of our corporate customers have been seeing a similar cost savings because of the ability to set travel policies with Carry.

Just curious, what % of travel at your company is booked through flightfox?

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