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Show HN: New site that predicts when an airfare will go up or down

13 points by FLYR 12y ago

mtmail 12y ago
Love it. Quick feedback: the initial page load was noticeably slow. I see 4MB, 2.6MG of those are background images. I don't understand why they keep changing when I look at results. In the 'filter carriers' I can't click on the carrier names, only the checkboxes. When changing filters and the backend needs a second I would expect some kind of loading indicator. Above the search results I see currently a quote by Andy Walhol. Is that relevant? The duration line looks like a slider and I tried to move it (yes, I doesn't make sense to move it, but I tend to click on everything shiny).
- FLYR 12y ago
  Thanks a ton for the feedback. We changed the size of the pictures and the loading should be much faster. Working on your other remarks as well.
  - shivaas 12y ago
    it was not intuitive at all that the date picker supported both departure and arrival dates. might be better to have two date fields :)
byoung2 12y ago
Very slow to load...3MB images are too heavy for a background image that serves no purpose. Even Bing backgrounds are 300k max.
- FLYR 12y ago
  We improved the loading time. Should be much faster now. Thanks
dyeje 12y ago
Are these one way flights only? I see nothing about return dates. Also, when you click the Details button on a flight it just disappears and nothing happens. There seems to be a javascript error occurring.
- infecto 12y ago
  The date picker includes return date.
FLYR 12y ago
@dyere Thanks for your feedback. The round trip option is directly displayed in the calendar. You can select a return date on the same calendar window. Flight details are displayed on the main result window as soon as you click the prediction tab. Clicking on the flight details again will hide the prediction tray.
notahacker 12y ago
I like what the prediction graph is trying to do, but the choice of colour makes it harder to interpret than it should be (some of the shades of light blue indicating a chance of a ticket in that price range actually stand out less than the default light grey). The thick grey outlines for the price average doesn't help with gauging the contrast either; perhaps a dotted line would be better? There's a small visual glitch on the date picker in Safari which renders the "1/2" in 31/2014 as a unicode fraction glyph.
- FLYR 12y ago
  Thanks for the feedback. We are working on fixing the Safari issue and taking notes on your remark regarding prediction graph.
Brushfire 12y ago
I'm getting no results for SFO->ORD or SFO->DFW in January 2015. Am I doing something wrong?
- FLYR 12y ago
  Here are results for you routes in January 2015. No problems found on our end. Let us know if you experience any further issues. Thanks for your interest. http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/ORD/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Francisco&ft=Chicago http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/ORD/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Fra... http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/DFW/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Francisco&ft=Dallas-Fort%20Worth http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/DFW/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Fra...

13 points by FLYR 12y ago

Love it. Quick feedback: the initial page load was noticeably slow. I see 4MB, 2.6MG of those are background images. I don't understand why they keep changing when I look at results. In the 'filter carriers' I can't click on the carrier names, only the checkboxes. When changing filters and the backend needs a second I would expect some kind of loading indicator. Above the search results I see currently a quote by Andy Walhol. Is that relevant? The duration line looks like a slider and I tried to move it (yes, I doesn't make sense to move it, but I tend to click on everything shiny).

FLYR 12y ago
Thanks a ton for the feedback. We changed the size of the pictures and the loading should be much faster. Working on your other remarks as well.
- shivaas 12y ago
  it was not intuitive at all that the date picker supported both departure and arrival dates. might be better to have two date fields :)

byoung2 12y ago

Very slow to load...3MB images are too heavy for a background image that serves no purpose. Even Bing backgrounds are 300k max.

FLYR 12y ago
We improved the loading time. Should be much faster now. Thanks

dyeje 12y ago

Are these one way flights only? I see nothing about return dates. Also, when you click the Details button on a flight it just disappears and nothing happens. There seems to be a javascript error occurring.

infecto 12y ago
The date picker includes return date.

FLYR 12y ago

@dyere Thanks for your feedback. The round trip option is directly displayed in the calendar. You can select a return date on the same calendar window. Flight details are displayed on the main result window as soon as you click the prediction tab. Clicking on the flight details again will hide the prediction tray.

notahacker 12y ago

I like what the prediction graph is trying to do, but the choice of colour makes it harder to interpret than it should be (some of the shades of light blue indicating a chance of a ticket in that price range actually stand out less than the default light grey). The thick grey outlines for the price average doesn't help with gauging the contrast either; perhaps a dotted line would be better? There's a small visual glitch on the date picker in Safari which renders the "1/2" in 31/2014 as a unicode fraction glyph.

FLYR 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. We are working on fixing the Safari issue and taking notes on your remark regarding prediction graph.

Brushfire 12y ago

I'm getting no results for SFO->ORD or SFO->DFW in January 2015. Am I doing something wrong?

FLYR 12y ago
Here are results for you routes in January 2015. No problems found on our end. Let us know if you experience any further issues. Thanks for your interest. http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/ORD/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Francisco&ft=Chicago http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/ORD/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Fra... http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/DFW/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Francisco&ft=Dallas-Fort%20Worth http://getflyr.com/#/flights/SFO/DFW/2015-01-21?ff=San%20Fra...