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I think it's darkly amusing that someone from a pre-launch travel startup (that could only generously be described as a "feature not a product") would blog abou

I think it's darkly amusing that someone from a pre-launch travel startup (that could only generously be described as a "feature not a product") would blog about how Hipmunk is all rounded corners and Ashton Kutcher. I have no affiliation to any of these companies except that I'm a HN regular who used to use Kayak and then immediately, intuitively saw that Hipmunk was a vastly more useable experience. Do I think I'm absolutely right? No, because it's deeply subjective. Vive la différence. Generally I'm immediately wary of any negative post that starts off with a disclaimer about how much respect the author has for the soon-to-be casualties of their rant. You're all buds, but you have no idea why their business needs to exist. Right. People roll the bones on all sorts of dumb-sounding concepts, and yet we're all still humbled every time there's a big win and we didn't built it. So here's to hoping I'm wrong about nobody having a Mozio-shaped hole in their lives, right? Respect!

dlitwak 15y ago
Apparently Hipmunk is a soft spot here . . . it is definitely curious that no one has vehemently defended any of the other startups. I wonder if it would have elicited the same response if I had criticized Expedia or some company that wasn't so dear to the YC community. I'm also a bit surprised at all the presumably "startup" people who feel the need to lecture me on being a young upstart who doesn't know what he's talking about, with an unlaunched product, who supposedly knows better. Oh the irony of a bunch of people who rock the boat for a living jumping down the throat of a kid who has the audacity to criticize. It seems that criticism of the big bad companies is ok, criticism of one of our own, not so much. Again, the article is from my perspective, on why I don't use it. You can say what you please about how intuitive it is and all the reasons why, but I don't use it, and I was trying to give some insight as to why. And I don't appreciate you making it seem like I don't respect Hipmunk, i made it abundantly clear I thought they had a wonderful product, I merely described why I didn't use it, and it seems like I'm not the only one who feels that way. I'll ignore the quip about my own project haha.

dlitwak 15y ago

Apparently Hipmunk is a soft spot here . . . it is definitely curious that no one has vehemently defended any of the other startups. I wonder if it would have elicited the same response if I had criticized Expedia or some company that wasn't so dear to the YC community. I'm also a bit surprised at all the presumably "startup" people who feel the need to lecture me on being a young upstart who doesn't know what he's talking about, with an unlaunched product, who supposedly knows better. Oh the irony of a bunch of people who rock the boat for a living jumping down the throat of a kid who has the audacity to criticize. It seems that criticism of the big bad companies is ok, criticism of one of our own, not so much. Again, the article is from my perspective, on why I don't use it. You can say what you please about how intuitive it is and all the reasons why, but I don't use it, and I was trying to give some insight as to why. And I don't appreciate you making it seem like I don't respect Hipmunk, i made it abundantly clear I thought they had a wonderful product, I merely described why I didn't use it, and it seems like I'm not the only one who feels that way. I'll ignore the quip about my own project haha.