Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hipmunk (YC S10)

Re:Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hi... by StavrosK on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @08:01PM (#1612832)

Please answer me this:

Why did I not know of this website? You don't even seem to have a front page, on the link another person posted, yet when I tried your link it is easily and by far the best fare search engine I've seen. All the others are bloated, slow and plastered with ads.

Who has been doing your marketing?

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Re:Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hi... by aditya on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @08:43PM (#1612902)

Because ITA doesn't care, they power the back-end of a lot of big players (eg. Orbitz) and they use some serious tech (which is why GOOG bought them), they don't really care about the consumer market and don't really want to play there. Makes sense to me.

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Re:Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hi... by StavrosK on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @04:07AM (#1613531)

Oh, I see, I didn't know that, thank you.

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Re:Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hi... by trevelyan on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @09:31PM (#1612986)

I'm curious why ITA doesn't actually make it possible to BUY the tickets. It seems silly to walk people through the entire process, provide them with so much information about available flights and prices and then say... go and find someone else to sell this to you.

Why not just partner with a travel agency and make life easier for people?

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Re:Reddit CoFounder Dips Back Into YC With Travel Startup Hi... by blasdel on Tuesday August 17, 2010 @10:21PM (#1613063)

Mega-volume travel agencies / search engines are their customers, not you.

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