Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
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Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
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Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#2Yeah for Hipmunk, Capitaine Train and others. They are providing a very efficient, no fuss, travel booking experience.
Historic players like Amadeus or DBahn (not to mention SNCF...), beware, these guys are rocking your world even more than you may be suspecting...
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#3I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great.
It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed.
I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection and prices. Usually Hipmunk is great but in this case it wasn't even close. That's definitely made me slightly wary of it for the future.
All things said it's great. Can't wait to see where it is in a few more years.
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#4I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great. It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed. I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection…
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Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
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Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#6Yeah for Hipmunk, Capitaine Train and others. They are providing a very efficient, no fuss, travel booking experience. Historic players like Amadeus or DBahn (not to mention SNCF...), beware, these guys are rocking your world even more than you may be suspecting...
I'm not sure they need to beware - DB\SCNF aren't really competing with the likes of Capitaine Train. If you buy a ticket from Paris to Lyon with CT for example - you're still getting the same SNCF train ticket and they'll get a giant chunk of that money (I have no idea what sort of referral CT get). I suppose its in these rail companies' best interests that someone puts together a nice interface for their ticket systems.
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#7I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great. It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed. I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection…
I had the same issue with buying tickets. Whichever site it sent me to lacked a "known traveler number" section, so I ditched to go to the airline's site.
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#8Given the founders, it's fun to contemplate Hipmunk as an anti-reddit, where a successful visit is probably brief and directly generates revenue.
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#9I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great. It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed. I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection…
I try Hipmunk every so often, the last time being about a month ago. Every time, Kayak shows more flight options for the same query than Hipmunk, and often cheaper ones. I don't get it, they both use ITA on the backend.
I'd use Hipmunk more often if they actually fulfilled their functionality promise as an aggregator. A pretty UI isn't enough.
Re: Travel Search Site Hipmunk (YC S10) Cuts Yahoo Deal
#10I've used Hipmunk several times. The interface is fantastic. The ipad app is also great. It does immensely suck that you leave Hipmunk to actually buy the tickets. I had to redo my entire search and purchase because the Safari view of Delta's website in the ipad Hipmunk app crashed. I also had to recently buy my cross-country Christmas tickets through Expedia. For whatever reason Expedia had far, far better selection…
I try Hipmunk every so often, the last time being about a month ago. Every time, Kayak shows more flight options for the same query than Hipmunk, and often cheaper ones. I don't get it, they both use ITA on the backend. I'd use Hipmunk more often if they actually fulfilled their functionality promise as an aggregator. A pretty UI isn't enough.
Kayak has additional data sources. I don't know the details, but the additional sources is clear enough. This lists a whole bunch: