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I hate to be that guy, but hasn't Kayak had this feature for a really long time? Hipmunk is great and all, but I fail to see how a travel site adding an icon i
by walexander 15y ago
I hate to be that guy, but hasn't Kayak had this feature for a really long time?
Hipmunk is great and all, but I fail to see how a travel site adding an icon is relevant to the HN frontpage.
- tmugavero 15y agoTotally agreed. I also lost a little respect for Hipmunk when I found out they are basically an exact copy of ITA's app: http://matrix.itasoftware.com/search.htm http://matrix.itasoftware.com/search.htm.
- kyleslattery 15y agoITA's app doesn't seem nearly as useful to me for a few reasons: 1) The form at the beginning is much more confusing. Creating a search with Hipmunk is much less complicated. 2) Flights are ordered by price, whereas Hipmunk orders them by "agony", which in my experience, seems to be pretty accurate. 3) Doesn't default to time bar mode, like Hipmunk does.
- tmugavero 15y agoTrue, but I'm not sure removing form fields and renaming filtering data constitutes innovation.
- spez 15y agoYeah, well, who are we to turn down great coverage?
- walexander 15y agoI wouldn't at all fault you guys for taking advantage of the coverage. I'm just wondering why the HN crowd decided to give free advertising to a small incremental update. This does give a compelling reason to join YC, though: plenty of cheerleading around YC startups.
- walexander 15y agoSince this was downvoted, i'll just clarify that I was not being facetious, so hopefully the comment is not being taken as flamebait. Really, the cheerleading is a legitimate reason to do YC, apparently.