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Hipmunk Says Goodbye
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#43RIP. I wonder what happened. I guess it just doesn't make money?
The article says it all. Their parent company came up with a different way to do corporate travel solutions...
Or its boring, corporate parent got bored of its fun, little, upstart adopted child. I can't read press releases of this kind without thinking "soulless corporate decision based just on money". Maybe Hipmunk was making $$ but the corporate parent wanted it to make $$$.
Too bad. Hipmunk had a lovely UI and was very useful. I hate how acquisitions (and acquihires in particular) cannibalize and destroy awesome little products.
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#44For those looking for replacements, Google Flights and Skyscanner have been mentioned in this thread... But also consider checking out Great Escape[1]. It has a neat UI.
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#45I always liked the Hipmunk branding :-)
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#46I used Hipmunk ever since I took Steve Huffman's (founder Reddit and Hipmunk) Udacity course. Not surprised it didn't make money, I would always use it alongside Kayak and then book directly with the airline/hotel/car company.
That's how I learned about it as well.
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#47This is a long time coming: for more context, Hipmunk was acquired by Concur back in 2016 for $58MM [1] as the flights meta-search business was just getting tougher and tougher As someone who's dabbled in flights bookings (BookWithMatrix) and now am working on a travel startup (Wanderlog, https://wanderlog.com , a Google Docs/Trips for travel planning), flights are just not that profitable. In North America, you'd be…
Wanderlog looks very cool, but you might want to take a look at how you’re pulling your header images. Planning a trip to Vietnam and got welcomed a B/W header image of the Vietnam War :/
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#48That's really sad. Hipmunk has been the only way I've found flights for the last several years, and I always loved it!
Personally, I don't know what else to use instead.
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#49the holy grail of travel search engines is one that include award availability (+ amount) across all carriers
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a fan of Matrix: https://matrix.itasoftware.com/
Once you get the hang of it, it's great. You can do stuff no other site can do. This really asks for some kind of query language. Or maybe there is one?
Google used to offer the QPX Express[1] API for querying flights. Then it got killed[2], like 190+ Google services[3]
[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20160413025405/https://developers...