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Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you. Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everythin
by jryio 7mo ago
Flighty is a good representation of what craft - compounded over time - gives you.
Everything from on design, to features, to data integrations. It's everything that vibe coding and agents don't get you. I appreciate their craft.
- jesterson 7mo agoI wish the data would be more reliable (or they have better sanity checks) though. One of my flights suddenly "departed" one hour+ before scheduled time. I almost got heart attack. Needless to say there were no objective reasons for that - airport dashboard was showing proper time and flight departed with 30min delay (displayed by Flighty as 1.5hr delay).
- ezfe 7mo agoI've never seen what you describe but I have seen other data issues. It usually depends on the airline, the same types of problems occur with the same airlines. I've asked and they say there's little they can do, the airlines systems are broadcasting this data and some airlines are better at it than others.
- jesterson 7mo agoTo be fair, it was the first majour hiccup with the app. Usually it is quite correct. It's hard to believe airline broadcasted incorrect data in my case. Even if that was the case, they could have cross checked it with airport data, which is way easier to obtain compared to airline stream. And also they could have additional checks for cases when aicraft "changes" departure time to 1 hr before scheduled at around 2 hours before scheduled time. It should be highly unusual case.
- xattt 7mo agoThe bubble fonts are a little too cheery for something as stressful as flight delays.
- alberth 7mo agoFlighty is very pretty, but I’m not giving up FlightAware anytime soon. I travel a lot, and frequently encounter flight delays. It’s mind boggling difficult to find out where my plane is when it’s delayed via Flighty. This and a few other things, FlightAware gets right. I feel like Flighty is for rare leisure traveler and FlightAware is for weekly business and/or pilot traveler. I’ve honestly had better luck with iOS built in flight tracker than Flighty itself.
- joezydeco 7mo agoFlighty routinely tells me about cancelled flights before any other app or the airline itself.
- trillic 7mo agoFlightAware and Flighty are usually within seconds of each other and always ahead of the airlines.
- lobochrome 7mo ago(except United)
- danpalmer 7mo agoFlighty is in a weird place because I'm a rare/leisure traveller and wow Flighty nowhere near reasonably priced for that market. I used it in free mode when I was on iOS, but it would be ~£10 per trip for something that would improve my life less than a coffee at the airport. In my opinion they need to aggressively cut costly features (like weather data), and if they have different international data feeds, perhaps do region locked pricing. I don't fly to the US much, so let me buy a Europe and Asia subscription and skip the US costs. Or vice-versa. It would have needed to be ~£10 a year at most.
- bombcar 7mo agoWhat does it actually do? People seem to get very excited about it but my flight status is always either “on the plane” or “not on the plane”
- annexrichmond 7mo agoI don’t get why they get so much praise for design with such a big design flaw: If a flight is delayed even 1 minute, it’s highlighted as red text. This throws me off every time. Google does not this. It still shows as green if it’s just a few minutes delayed. I’ve reported this to the Flighty team and they ignored me so I can only assume they think this is a good idea, and I will therefore never pay for their app.
- Gagarin1917 7mo agoChallenge accepted
- gaintchicken 7mo agoFascinating, I was struck by the exact opposite. The text overflowed the search bar, the bottom table was difficult to read, the airports all just kind of pulsed brown every couple seconds, I assumed this was a slopped together weekend project someone was advertising here.
- jryio 7mo agoI am commenting on the entire app experience on iOS not a single web app they released today (which unfortunately is what can be linked on HN). Read the other comments and you'll see the same, download the iOS app and use that as your basis for commenting.
- enraged_camel 7mo agoBut the iOS app is not what was shared. Why would someone use an iOS app they haven't used as the basis for their comment? Especially since you yourself did not mention it in your top comment?
- sefrost 7mo agoThis web app has very little design-wise in common with the iOS app. It doesn’t even serve the same use case. They’ve hurt their brand here really, which is a high quality native app experience that makes sense of a lot of granular data from different sources.
- amiantos 7mo agoWhy can't you just like an app, why do you have to turn it into a personal statement about your dislike of AI? If AI was not involved, why bring it up?
- jryio 7mo agoI imagine you live your life contextually, whereby your daily experiences are felt against the backdrop of the immediate events you, then your community, and eventually the world at large. If the rest of the world was involved, why not bring it up?
- enraged_camel 7mo agoWhat does this drivel even mean?
- Atalocke 7mo agoOP makes a good point. No vibe coded app could do this. AI grants productivity. Not taste, wisdom, or talent.
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