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I liked this interview, but I found myself siding with the dude at the computer more than anybody. I mean I fully agree that startups must and should improve l

by dkrich 15y ago

I liked this interview, but I found myself siding with the dude at the computer more than anybody. I mean I fully agree that startups must and should improve lives to be viable. But then how are you in the same interview going to plug a website called "Hipmunk" that basically just displays flight info in a different way that to me doesn't really seem any more intuitive than Kayak? Flight search has been done. A billion times. Unless you are coming with some interesting new business model, you are just shuffling around existing information and wasting a lot of time and money. You aren't really improving anybody's lives or solving a real problem. Why not try to build something that really helps people do something they can't do now?

kn0thing 15y ago
You've deftly avoided commenting on our mascot. This is just one year into hipmunk - there's more to come. But even a year in, think of all the hours we've liberated for flight/hotel searchers to do other more productive things (like read Hacker News -- OK, bad example).