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Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by cglong »

seltzered_ wrote: post #57

There's a number of comments about how hipmunk declined or didn't have good prices. It reminded me of a recent Matthew Stoller piece ( https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/the-wave-of-terror-in-ame... ) : "Similarly, I spoke on a panel a few months ago in Congress on airlines, and Adam Goldstein, the former CEO of flight travel booking site Hipmunk, talked as well. I used to love Hipmunk, but it’s terrible now and I do…

I tried Hipmunk once because I loved the site's personality, but it wasn't able to find any flights on Delta to Atlanta (Delta's primary hub). As much as I liked the site, the inability to find such a basic route made me lose confidence in it from the start :(

Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by scottrogowski »

I worked for Hipmunk for a little over two years before they were purchased and have some fond memories of my time there. There have been a lot of articles on HN lately suggesting that it is better to work for a large company over a startup. Based on my time there, I would strongly disagree. I came in as a junior engineer (feral would be an appropriate term) and during my time, touched basically every part of the web application - backend and frontend. I made a lot of mistakes and through it all, I left significantly more experienced than I was when I started. I don't think there was a better place I could have spent my time at that stage of my career. My advice would be, do work for a startup. Even better, try to work for a startup like Hipmunk with an experienced senior engineering team who have worked on some hard problems - like how to scale Reddit in the era before AWS. You'll learn a lot.

Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by cwilkes »

cbright wrote: post #56

"Any time a company gets acquired, there are always concerns about what it means for the company and product. Here are some things to know: 1. Hipmunk isn’t going anywhere" -Adam Goldstein, October 3, 2016

“Isn’t going anywhere” is technically correct based on how you parse it.

Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by bartkappenburg »

sdoering wrote: post #75
phsource wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry about that! We just fixed it -- if you create it again, hopefully you get a non-Vietnam War picture

Wow. Fixed within 12 minutes from notification in an online forum to production. I am impressed.

SSH'ed info the production server, pico index.php, saved file, done.

Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by atom-morgan »

scottrogowski wrote: post #92

I worked for Hipmunk for a little over two years before they were purchased and have some fond memories of my time there. There have been a lot of articles on HN lately suggesting that it is better to work for a large company over a startup. Based on my time there, I would strongly disagree. I came in as a junior engineer (feral would be an appropriate term) and during my time, touched basically every part of the web…

> I came in as a junior engineer (feral would be an appropriate term)

How did this work? From what I've seen, early stage startups always want senior only.

Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by [deleted] »

sdoering wrote: post #75
phsource wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry about that! We just fixed it -- if you create it again, hopefully you get a non-Vietnam War picture

Wow. Fixed within 12 minutes from notification in an online forum to production. I am impressed.

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Re: Hipmunk Says Goodbye

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Post by dmix »

phsource wrote: post #22

This 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…

Can someone explain to me what Concur does? I'm guessing it handles a bunch of the travel stuff for bigcos with lots of travelling sales people?
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