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Show HN: I built a newsletter that sends you cheap weekend trips from your city
- robbya 7y agoAll the examples include a flight, is there support for local driving trips? Driving an hour is faster/cheaper than plane fare.
- gusgordon 7y agoNot currently — this is just for flight and hotel combinations. Good idea though, I want to add that along with train and boat trips.
- kipukun 7y agoYou know, I really like this idea. It's simple, straight-forward, the website loads, and its demographic is mostly everyone. Good stuff. One qualm is that two scrollbars show up, probably from some overflow: scroll stuff. Would consider looking at that.
- gusgordon 7y agoThank you! I’ll take a look at the scroll bar issue.
- pricci 7y agoNice. How do you decide if a trip is "cheap"? Do you track an average or have a threshold?
- gusgordon 7y agoThat’s right, it uses the 90-day average price of flight + hotel. I take the z-score relative to that and filter for trips with lower z-scores.
- TurkishPoptart 7y agoNice work. I'm curious about how you built this.
- gusgordon 7y agoThank you. The front end is hosted with Netlify and the back end uses Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice https://github.com/aws/chalice It also uses Chrome Puppeteer for scraping. Chalice is super awesome. I'm planning to write a blog post on the tech.
- akudha 7y agonot your parent comment, but I think they mean how you get the data, not the tech stack
- brendanfalk 7y agoSmart. Excited to see how this pans out
- 6510 7y agoWait.... this is the kind of thing we hoped future technology would do in the 80's.... Well done!
- Cognitron 7y agoDoes it include nearby airports? I have two airports nearby that each have better deals depending on where you're going.
- gusgordon 7y agoYeah, it uses all airports within 40 miles of your location (or your closest airport).
- scriptstar 7y agoNice one. Congratulations. Which newsletter provider are you using?
- gusgordon 7y agoThanks - just using Amazon SES to send the emails.