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I'm on the technical end but to me this looks like just another ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking.com & flight planner API key. Nothing more. Expedia was on the li

I'm on the technical end but to me this looks like just another ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking.com & flight planner API key. Nothing more. Expedia was on the list of ChatGPT plugin developers in 2023. What's stopping you? What keeps you in business the moment any travel agency decides gets into Gemini, ChatGPT or the like? I'm sure you make a lot of money per commission, but I don't see what is unique about you as company. What stops anyone else from vibecoding what you'e built in an afternoon?

vincentalbouy 8mo ago
Fair question. If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead. Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and close deals. That’s not something you get with an API key. You can vibe-code an Airbnb clone in an afternoon. Without supply, contracts, and operational execution, it’s useless. Marketplace take time to build network effect LLMs can display data. They can’t negotiate, contract, invoice, manage edge cases, or execute group bookings end-to-end. We’ll distribute via all major LLMs. But the defensibility is in our network and operations and date, not the UI that everyone could replicate
- malfist 8mo ago
  It's not a human response, it's an AI
  - vincentalbouy 8mo ago
    I am Vincent, TeamOut's CTO, if you want to see my face you can book a call here: https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min no problem for me!
    - philipp-gayret 8mo ago
      Not the person you're replying to but this response uses different quotation marks and capitalisation compared to your shallow ChatGPT output from earlier. I took the time to write out what I thought and I'm not going to reply to LLM output. If you wanted genuine dialogue put in effort to reply yourself.
  - giancarlostoro 8mo ago
    Anyone making such a claim should be providing reasons or evidence of their claim about someone else's comments being AI. Not everything is AI just because you don't like someone who uses AI in other areas.
    - vincentalbouy 8mo ago
      Agreed. Thank you for the support. There was even grammar issues in my response, what sort of Ai is doing grammar mistakes?
      - malfist 8mo ago
        You're exactly right! AI never makes mistakes, we all know that.
        vincentalbouy 8mo ago
        Grammar mistakes is a solved problem yes.
- philipwhiuk 8mo ago
  The risk isn't "anyone", it's Tripadvisor or Trivago.

vincentalbouy 8mo ago

Fair question. If we were just a ChatGPT wrapper with a Booking API, we’d be already dead. Our value isn’t the interface it’s the supply. We have direct relationships with hotels that log in daily to quote, adjust pricing, negotiate, and close deals. That’s not something you get with an API key. You can vibe-code an Airbnb clone in an afternoon. Without supply, contracts, and operational execution, it’s useless. Marketplace take time to build network effect LLMs can display data. They can’t negotiate, contract, invoice, manage edge cases, or execute group bookings end-to-end. We’ll distribute via all major LLMs. But the defensibility is in our network and operations and date, not the UI that everyone could replicate

malfist 8mo ago
It's not a human response, it's an AI
- vincentalbouy 8mo ago
  I am Vincent, TeamOut's CTO, if you want to see my face you can book a call here: https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min https://calendly.com/vincent-363/15min no problem for me!
  - philipp-gayret 8mo ago
    Not the person you're replying to but this response uses different quotation marks and capitalisation compared to your shallow ChatGPT output from earlier. I took the time to write out what I thought and I'm not going to reply to LLM output. If you wanted genuine dialogue put in effort to reply yourself.
- giancarlostoro 8mo ago
  Anyone making such a claim should be providing reasons or evidence of their claim about someone else's comments being AI. Not everything is AI just because you don't like someone who uses AI in other areas.
  - vincentalbouy 8mo ago
    Agreed. Thank you for the support. There was even grammar issues in my response, what sort of Ai is doing grammar mistakes?
    - malfist 8mo ago
      You're exactly right! AI never makes mistakes, we all know that.
      - vincentalbouy 8mo ago
        Grammar mistakes is a solved problem yes.
philipwhiuk 8mo ago
The risk isn't "anyone", it's Tripadvisor or Trivago.