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Not mobile web. Native mobile apps. Mobile web will also be important soon too though.

by chadp 16y ago

staunch 16y ago
Even mobile apps. Take a recent cool YC company: Hipmunk. Why the heck would they make a mobile app version before hipmunk.com?
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- kn0thing 16y ago
  Thanks for the shoutout! Yes, the web app was definitely first priority. But apparently mobile is a huge recent growth area for travel search sites. Folks evidently want to search & book from their smartphones -- but it's still not as big as web (yet?).
  - staunch 16y ago
    This prompted me to go back and search Kayak's S1 filing[1]. From that we learn that mobile represents 1% of their revenues (7% searches). And that's for Kayak, whose mobile app has been hugely successful (4 million downloads). Obviously it's a big growth opportunity, but for Hipmunk you have even more opportunity for growth (and revenue!) on the non-mobile web. Kayak less so. "Queries conducted on our mobile applications accounted for 7.0% of our total queries for the nine months ended September 30, 2010. However, mobile applications accounted for less than 1% of total revenues during that period. We believe mobile applications will continue to gain prominence, and we expect to continue to commit resources to improve the features, functionality and commercialization of our mobile applications. We also believe over time mobile applications will begin to contribute meaningful revenue to our business." ... "KAYAK mobile applications have been downloaded nearly four million times since their introduction in March 2009. For the quarter ended September 30, 2010, we had over one million downloads, representing growth of 152% compared to the same period in 2009." 1. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/000119312510262521/ds1.htm http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/0001193125102...

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Not mobile web. Native mobile apps. Mobile web will also be important soon too though.

by chadp 16y ago

Not mobile web. Native mobile apps. Mobile web will also be important soon too though.

staunch 16y ago
Even mobile apps. Take a recent cool YC company: Hipmunk. Why the heck would they make a mobile app version before hipmunk.com?
- deleted 16y ago
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- kn0thing 16y ago
  Thanks for the shoutout! Yes, the web app was definitely first priority. But apparently mobile is a huge recent growth area for travel search sites. Folks evidently want to search & book from their smartphones -- but it's still not as big as web (yet?).
  - staunch 16y ago
    This prompted me to go back and search Kayak's S1 filing[1]. From that we learn that mobile represents 1% of their revenues (7% searches). And that's for Kayak, whose mobile app has been hugely successful (4 million downloads). Obviously it's a big growth opportunity, but for Hipmunk you have even more opportunity for growth (and revenue!) on the non-mobile web. Kayak less so. "Queries conducted on our mobile applications accounted for 7.0% of our total queries for the nine months ended September 30, 2010. However, mobile applications accounted for less than 1% of total revenues during that period. We believe mobile applications will continue to gain prominence, and we expect to continue to commit resources to improve the features, functionality and commercialization of our mobile applications. We also believe over time mobile applications will begin to contribute meaningful revenue to our business." ... "KAYAK mobile applications have been downloaded nearly four million times since their introduction in March 2009. For the quarter ended September 30, 2010, we had over one million downloads, representing growth of 152% compared to the same period in 2009." 1. http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/000119312510262521/ds1.htm http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1312928/0001193125102...