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Adioso (YC W09) launch mini-site for Valentine's Day travel deals
- thenduks 16y agoThis looks really awesome but it apparently only has US airports.
- nedwin 16y agoThere are destinations all over the world though Adioso is still adding airlines, particularly in Canada, South America and Africa.
- beingacquired 16y agoIt's international but it still only allows me to select an airport about 20 hours drive away. I'm not sure what their logic is in self-selecting an airport in a country that is outside of my usual area while I'm traveling?
- tomhoward 16y agoThis microsite is the first product built on Adioso's enhanced platform, which will enable us to add more airlines and destinations - including Canada - real soon. Stay tuned!
- sradu 16y agoThat's one gorgeous mini-site.
- tomhoward 16y agoMany thanks :) Credit for the design to James Noble at Carter Digital. http://www.cartercreative.com.au/ http://www.cartercreative.com.au/
- kirpekar 16y agoI am probably not their target customer -- I will just never use this sort of thing. I'm curious to know who this is targeted to. I don't need ideas on where to travel. Recommendations on destination come from family and friends ... the game is then to fit it into budget / vacation days / schedule, etc.
- tomhoward 16y agoPerhaps you're not the target user for this specific product: the idea is to show people what their destination & accommodation options are at a given budget. It's particularly useful for people who like the idea of taking a trip for Valentine's day but find the process of manually searching flight & accommodation options too slow/hard. Though it hasn't got there yet, the plan with the main Adioso site is to do what you described; if you have a destination, budget and vague timeframe in mind, Adioso will monitor options and prices, and alert you when a deal becomes available.
- bryanh 16y agoApparently Niagra Falls is the only option at any price point for me.
- mariuskempe 16y agoAdioso strikes me as a company with little social sense. Asking how much I 'value' my girlfriend is just... off. And similarly, the fact their normal site actually _admits_ that it has a confusing interface and asks if you want help understanding it is just the oddest UX design I've ever heard of.
- tbull007 16y agoHad to go look at the main site again as this isn't my recollection of it. So yes, there is a small "show search help" link under the main search entry, but I don't see this as an admission of a confusing interface. Feels more like helps there if you need it, but unobtrusive if you don't. I think in the problem domain the Adioso guys are in, this is a fair trade off. Not all first time users would understand the concept of natural language search and would instead be looking for "from and to" dates. What's you suggestion to improve the main site? I think it's pretty good.
- robryan 16y agoIn the long run to the natural language search is a far better solution for searching for flights.
- mariuskempe 16y agoGo to http://adioso.com/search?q=A+hard+search+query http://adioso.com/search?q=A+hard+search+query in an incognito window or similar - you have to have not visited before. A bar comes up at the top of the page saying that the interface "can be a little confusing". I have no thoughts on the interface per se, I just think that if you have to admit that your interface is confusing, you've already lost.
- thenduks 16y agoThat only happens if you end up with no results (eg, you didn't really grasp what to search for). Eg: http://adioso.com/search?q=france http://adioso.com/search?q=france -- does not show that bar.
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- kasted 16y agothis page will convert terribly
- atroche 16y agoWhat makes you say that?
- alextgordon 16y agoIt look me a while to find the submit button - it's camouflaged against the background and in front of a bookmark shape... Also I suspect the minimum price point ($500/£250) is too high. The text of the site is challenging the user to spend more ("How much do you <3 me?") so it will be more difficult than usual for users to select the minimum (or in their words: "A little"). They'd do better to make the submit button actually look like a button, and to set the minimum to $0 (even though no flights will ever be found for that price).
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- specally123 16y agoI think its a great idea. I think that those that will use it most is people who just want to get away as soon as possible. The idea of finding the perfect holiday destination for the couple is not a strong motivating factor in this case. Hazard a guess at how many men in a long term relationship book holidays. Why? because its too much effort. This site makes it easy, based on the one true motivating factor for men when they want to go on a holiday. The price. Although I must admit when I first saw the 'Send this deal to your lover" email fields I thought it allowed you to email two lovers.