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Wow, this is really cool! I built something kind of similar after college as a proof-of-concept and to learn JavaScript/React: https://yingw787.github.io/travel
by yingw787 8y ago
Wow, this is really cool! I built something kind of similar after college as a proof-of-concept and to learn JavaScript/React: https://yingw787.github.io/traveltile_docs/ https://yingw787.github.io/traveltile_docs/
I worried about the monetization model, since my expected audience would be people like me (post-college people starting off). Do you have plans to find paying, high-margin customers? I would say that's really important.
I supposed that my competition would be sites like TripAdvisor that would sell pre-packaged travel plans to small groups. I would guess it would be because they skim a fee on top, they have liability insurance, or management got talking into them "knowing the terrain" or something, though I don't know for sure. If you could get that audience (older, wealthier couples, I'm guessing) and convince them to pay for this platform instead, you could earn a pretty penny. That probably falls under the "do things that don't scale" category of manually tailoring travel plans.
Another thing I considered was the ability to fork an existing travel plan, to tailor to changing environments yet retain the benefits of past experience. Since you never really go on the same trip once, but everybody pretty much goes on the same trip. So all the travel plans would go into a data lake, with certain groups pulling, forking, and contributing back. I did not have the technical expertise to do this at the time. Something to consider :)
I wish you the very best of luck, I kind of wish I did what you guys are doing today. I will live vicariously through you :)
- arciini 8y agoTraveltile looks really cool! The documentation is kinda amazing and I'll definitely clone it and play with it later today. Before Travelchime, Peter and I had some experience with monetizing via hotel and flight affiliate fees via our past sites, https://bookwithmatrix.com https://bookwithmatrix.com and https://alltheflightdeals.com https://alltheflightdeals.com . We did a bit of research, and about 2/3 of travelers who use docs start one before they book the hotels. We believe that if our recommendations are good enough (based on where you'd like to go in a trip plan), we could monetize using the same model there. Forking an existing trip plan and copying bits/pieces from friends' trip plans are both features we'd really like to build out really soon! So many of my trips end up having 50%+ overlap with some of my friends, so that'd save a ton of time
- notoriousjpg 8y agoWow you guys have a lot of experience in this space! For a product like alltheflightdeals, i've never understood how entrepreneurs justify competing here. I assume you're not directly integrating with a GDS and that this works off Skyscanner API (or equiv)? Did you see much traction with ATFD? Is there a vision in the future to combine travelchime with ATFD? Seems like they would work well together :) Great job btw!