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Re:Wander.com Looks Promising on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @10:36PM (#30268460)
Requires $100 deposit to view nightly rates.
Similarly, https://skiplagged.com surfaces potentially cheaper multi-leg flights that have a layover in your destination city.

For example if you are wanting to travel from A->B, a flight that goes A->B->C may be cheaper than A->B if A->C is a competitive route.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017) on Monday October 02, 2017 @04:00PM (#15387402)
FYI - your non-www URL doesn't load
Congrats. I remember watching Flexport get pitched to PG and Sam Altman during open 'Office Hours' at Startup School in 2013.

https://youtu.be/syoqjYLDs48?t=19m30s

Re:Show HN: Telescope, a news reader app on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @02:52PM (#15287685)
Awesome. Curious, what are you using to scrape sources, and for social counts?
Re:Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records on Saturday August 26, 2017 @12:27PM (#15106125)
Also if someone enters a path other than the index nothing catches the 404. At the least you should have a redirect. :)

http://backdoor.fr/123

Re:Show HN: Park your domain name with just 2 DNS records on Saturday August 26, 2017 @12:02PM (#15105999)
Cool project. We do something very similar with an internally made lander for our domain portfolio, and it works well. Lots of serious buyers contact via e-mail listed on whois too.

One thing very useful is to have analytics, perhaps you could add a feature for users to input a Google Analytics tag (UA-000000).

Side note: for anyone who actually wants to sell/buy a domain in a private transaction, I highly recommend Escrow.com as an escrow service.

Re:Show HN: The best time to visit any city on Tuesday August 22, 2017 @04:51PM (#15076275)
http://offpeak.io the project my team has been working on aims to solve this exact problem. We help travelers avoid peak season, and peak dates that are often associated with large business conferences.
Hey guys, co-founder and developer of Offpeak.io here. Let me know if I can answer any questions, and we greatly appreciate feedback.
Sorry about that. You're right, we need to work on our autocomplete algo and set a fallback for unavailable cities.

I will add Portland to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Sorry about that. We need to work on a fallback for the autocomplete.

Also, I will add Montreal to our next batch of cities we add and message you when it's up.

Depending on the city. In a lot of major cities weekdays are more popular due to business travel.
Fixed the URL issue, thanks for alerting me of that.

Will add Tbilisi to top of the list for the next cities we add as well.

Thanks for the feedback.

We fixed the back-button issue. We currently have only 53 cities during this beta, and are aiming to add a ton more soon.

And you are right, the autocomplete algo needs a bit more work and a fallback for missing cities. We're on it.

Re:Show HN: Offpeak.io – Know the best time to travel on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @03:23PM (#14904383)
Yes, that's the idea. :)
Re:Show HN: Offpeak.io – Know the best time to travel on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:51PM (#14904045)
The median rates displayed are based on what hotels are available right now (with some caching of course), i.e. what you would see if you did a search query for that date on Expedia.com.
Re:Show HN: Offpeak.io – Know the best time to travel on Tuesday August 01, 2017 @02:47PM (#14903995)
Hotel pricing data is from Expedia, and chart is made with AnyChart. Hope you enjoy, and we appreciate any feedback.
Exactly. I've seen people young and old have Yahoo as their default search on their PC or phone, and they usually don't even realize it's not "Google" results.
Re:Show HN: The Segment AWS Stack on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:15PM (#11918217)
What tool did you use to make the flow chart, or is it custom?

[0] https://segment.com/blog/the-segment-aws-stack/images/main.p...

Re:Google: End of the Online Advertising Bubble on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:36PM (#11629540)
AdWords determines your ad's AdRank by its Quality Score (expected clickthrough rate, ad relevance, and landing page experience) in addition to your cpc bid.

Perhaps you had a low quality score (below 8), so Google requested a higher CPC to compensate?

I see this warning in effect on http://kat.cr in Chrome:

  Deceptive site ahead
  
  Attackers on kat.cr may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing your personal information (for example, passwords, phone numbers, or credit cards).
Re:Expedia Acquires Airbnb Rival HomeAway for $3.9B on Wednesday November 04, 2015 @11:48PM (#10511677)
Lyft is not publicly traded.
Re:The User Is Drunk on Tuesday March 24, 2015 @10:58PM (#9261009)
"The User is Drunk" is explained better in video by Will Dayble of Squareweave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2CbbBLVaPk

Also, OP's post seems more like "The UX Consultant is Drunk".

Re:Get away with Google Flights on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @03:14PM (#9109246)
I use http://www.optifly.com/ for airline route discovery.

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