bkidwell

6 ms·

1.
We’re Scott and Brian of Scott’s Cheap Flights. Ask Us Anything on IndieHackers!(indiehackers.com)
3 points by bkidwell 8y ago|0 comments
2.
by bkidwell 9y ago
Yeah I hear you. I really appreciate the feedback as well. We only try to partner with high quality companies. For example this Tokyo one were running right now is with journy, ProductHunt, theSkimm, The Wirecutter, and Conde Nast Traveler.
3.
by bkidwell 9y ago
Hey, I'm just going to post the same response I used in the IndieHackers comment section for someone with a similar concern. Here's what I said: "Our subscribers are too important to us to ever sell their information to someo
4.
by bkidwell 9y ago
We have plenty of copycats out there (one of the downsides of us trying to share our learnings online haha). I'd just look at when the domains were purchased if you want to know who was first ;) Also, we send deals from almost every co
5.
by bkidwell 9y ago
Cool I like the tooltip idea. We're working on a lot of changes right now so I'll definitely keep this in mind.
6.
by bkidwell 9y ago
I'd actually rather put "Past Roundtrip Deal" above the deal info just because of how big the word "Roundtrip" is. We have to keep design in mind... and if we just put RT that would likely lead to confusion as well.
7.
by bkidwell 9y ago
Wow, thanks for the feedback! Almost every single deal we send out is roundtrip. This is actually why we put "normal roundtrip price" instead of just "normal price" to help clarify this. Maybe instead we should do &quot
8.
by bkidwell 9y ago
You're right. We do some A/B testing when we're running promotions (test headlines, CTAs, etc.) but that's about it. There is a lot that goes into correctly running split tests on the website and interpreting those resul
9.
by bkidwell 9y ago
Thanks Joel!
10.
by bkidwell 9y ago
That's a great question. At a certain point... yes. But I think that number is much higher than a few hundred thousand users. If you think about departure cities X destination cities X available dates and times X number of seats, the n
11.
Scott's Cheap Flights: Growing a small side project into a booming business(indiehackers.com)
559 points by bkidwell 9y ago|227 comments