airninja

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by airninja 2y ago
Right now, the service only tracks Canadian airlines and airports. I’m working on adding international flights down the road. Sorry about that!
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by airninja 2y ago
Thanks for the heads-up! I get where you're coming from. I’m thinking about adding a free tier so people can test things out. In the meantime, if you want to give it a try, just let me know and I’ll set up a test alert for you. Thanks
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by airninja 2y ago
I don’t really track historical prices, so I can’t say what’s a “good value” in that sense. I just send an email whenever I spot a lower price for a flight. That way, you get the heads-up on any deals as soon as they show up!
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by airninja 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, airlines are definitely tough when it comes to scraping, so I’m expecting a bit of a cat-and-mouse game with their anti-scraping measures. As for the one-hit pricing model, the idea is to keep it super simple
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by airninja 2y ago
I’ve been considering making it open source, so the community could add airline implementations for different airlines and self-host it. I’m not sure yet if I should go ahead with this or not.
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by airninja 2y ago
That’s going to be a fun challenge then! I’m up for it and will see how it goes. Thanks for the heads-up!
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by airninja 2y ago
By “scraping” the data, I mean I’m just going straight to airline websites like WestJet and grabbing the info they show publicly. I’m not using any paid services or IATA data—just parsing whatever’s on the page. This helps me track price ch
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by airninja 2y ago
The AI art is there mainly because the page would be pretty empty otherwise, and I wanted to have some fun generating images :)
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by airninja 2y ago
I'm also on the lookout for new opportunities. If you know of any openings for a DevOps Engineer or Software Engineer, feel free to reach out!
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Show HN: I built a site that tracks short-lived flight deals(flight-price-alert.com)
13 points by airninja 2y ago|25 comments