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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by toast0 »

FireBeyond wrote: post #37
newscracker wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The promise is that it informs you quickly about flight delays, flight cancellations and gate changes. In my limited experience, it didn’t work satisfactorily for a flight delay of a few hours. It could not provide any reliable updates. It’s a nice app and service, but I wouldn’t trust all those reviews that are like “I knew before the aircraft pilot knew”. It has its own limitations.

Yeah, the most notable "use", not necessarily "value", is when the airline is still prevaricating over the delay, you're approaching boarding time and you can see from ADS-B that the inbound aircraft hasn't even begun initial descent.

What do you do with that information though?

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by exidy »

ZeWaka wrote: post #31
exidy wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> one of the most important pieces of data for a flight, its duration Flighty is all about getting you to the airport in time for your flight, so the most important pieces of information are things like departure times, connection times, delay information, terminal and boarding gate. These are prioritised in the interface. The flight duration is set when you book the flight and it's not going to change, there is no r…

Boarding is hard because it's at the discretion of the airlines, yeah. Departure time is easier because of https://www.fly.faa.gov/edct/showEDCT

> Departure time is easier because of https://www.fly.faa.gov/edct/showEDCT

If you're in the US!

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by splitbrainhack »

exidy wrote: post #24

While I appreciate the aesthetics of this feature I actually fear it represents a loss of focus for Flighty. As a traveller, I don't need a global view of airport disruptions, I need relevant info for my flights . Given the prominent TV Mode button in the interface, this update seems to be about competing with Flightradar24, who sell business subscriptions for airports and related sectors for information displays.

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Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by strange_quark »

bombcar wrote: post #38
FireBeyond wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, the most notable "use", not necessarily "value", is when the airline is still prevaricating over the delay, you're approaching boarding time and you can see from ADS-B that the inbound aircraft hasn't even begun initial descent.

I still don't really see the use, but maybe there are large swaths of people who stay home until they can leave at the very last minute. I'm almost certainly going to be waiting at the airport anyway by the time the delay is confirmed.

Last year Flighty literally saved me from an overnight delay because it notified me the incoming aircraft was still on the ground at the previous airport. I was able to snag the last couple seats on a later scheduled flight which actually departed. My original flight ended up getting canceled.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by sefrost »

gaintchicken wrote: post #34
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

Fascinating, I was struck by the exact opposite. The text overflowed the search bar, the bottom table was difficult to read, the airports all just kind of pulsed brown every couple seconds, I assumed this was a slopped together weekend project someone was advertising here.

This web app has very little design-wise in common with the iOS app. It doesn’t even serve the same use case.

They’ve hurt their brand here really, which is a high quality native app experience that makes sense of a lot of granular data from different sources.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by amiantos »

jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

Why can't you just like an app, why do you have to turn it into a personal statement about your dislike of AI? If AI was not involved, why bring it up?

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by jryio »

amiantos wrote: post #46
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

Why can't you just like an app, why do you have to turn it into a personal statement about your dislike of AI? If AI was not involved, why bring it up?

I imagine you live your life contextually, whereby your daily experiences are felt against the backdrop of the immediate events you, then your community, and eventually the world at large. If the rest of the world was involved, why not bring it up?

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by Atalocke »

amiantos wrote: post #46
jryio wrote: post #9

Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.

Why can't you just like an app, why do you have to turn it into a personal statement about your dislike of AI? If AI was not involved, why bring it up?

OP makes a good point. No vibe coded app could do this. AI grants productivity. Not taste, wisdom, or talent.

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by enraged_camel »

jryio wrote: post #47
amiantos wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why can't you just like an app, why do you have to turn it into a personal statement about your dislike of AI? If AI was not involved, why bring it up?

I imagine you live your life contextually, whereby your daily experiences are felt against the backdrop of the immediate events you, then your community, and eventually the world at large. If the rest of the world was involved, why not bring it up?

What does this drivel even mean?

Re: Flighty Airports

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Post by enraged_camel »

jryio wrote: post #36
gaintchicken wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fascinating, I was struck by the exact opposite. The text overflowed the search bar, the bottom table was difficult to read, the airports all just kind of pulsed brown every couple seconds, I assumed this was a slopped together weekend project someone was advertising here.

I am commenting on the entire app experience on iOS not a single web app they released today (which unfortunately is what can be linked on HN). Read the other comments and you'll see the same, download the iOS app and use that as your basis for commenting.

But the iOS app is not what was shared. Why would someone use an iOS app they haven't used as the basis for their comment? Especially since you yourself did not mention it in your top comment?
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