kn0thing

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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   They're apparently the worst-selling Halloween costume ever.
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   It would break my heart for hungry founders to pay market rate. I've got no idea what 10min can do, but my typical in-person office hours are 20min. I'll talk 2x fast!
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   I've asked that the proceeds of this get donated to my Http://awesomestudies.org - I'm on the board (treasurer) but it's a lightweight legal backend (read: donation funnel) for The Awesome Foundation.
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   Definitely. I'd been chatting with Drew about lessons learned from TotalFark for quite some time before Gold.
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   Sorry! I fell down the rabbit hole of Internet surfing and totally botched the link - I'd found this entry from your delicious bookmark: http://www.delicious.com/search?p=summer+flounders&chk=&... Back then I was actively monitoring t
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   Congrats on the success! A simple, elegant app that just gets shit done -- and with a revenue model. Bit of a blast from the past here, but I want to thank you for some unintentional inspiration you gave me 6 years ago when Steve & I la
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   Don't forget the mascot ;) we're the travel search that's chipmunk without the "C."
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   Thank you very much :) I was very impressed when I saw it - especially with how flexible dates are handled: http://blog.hipmunk.com/post/6494292972/new-flexible-date-se...
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   by kn0thing 15y ago

   My ver 0 of the blog had a nearly identical top banner to the mintlife blog, but the ctr was atrocious. I've been experimenting with placements and sizes since day 1. The buttons on the footer of each post are doing pretty well so far (but
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Hurray! Thanks, Max :)
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    We're growing our faredata outside of the US every day, but we started with the market we know best to make all of our carrier relationships. Keep checking back! In the meantime, if hipmunk doesn't provide you an awesome set of search resul
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Interesting. I used the exact top header from the mint blog on our posterous blog for the last 10mos or so with little CTR success, even as I tweaked fonts/color/size, etc. To the immediate right of "home," the links "flights" and "hotels"
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Interesting. That's what I modeled it off of (and have been consulting Mint folks about it). The previous (posterous) blog had a banner at the top that was identical to mint's, but the ctr was abysmal. I've been moving around the giant butt
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    The mascot, probably.
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Thanks for doing that. You deserve a special thank you for the word-of-mouth hustle - email me? Alexis at hipmunk (same goes for any of you who do our chipmunk solids in that department!)
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Re-targeting indeed.
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Stop reading my marketing plan! ;) I'm hoping for a rocking campaign in the run up to Thanksgiving to get all of our young geeky users to teach their parents so they'll spend less time searching for flights/hotels and more time for pie!
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    Hipmunk founders Steve & Adam honored in 30 under 30(inc.com)

    58 points by kn0thing 15y ago|8 comments
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    What is magic?(jennifer8lee.com)

    105 points by kn0thing 15y ago|24 comments
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    re: the hipmunk video, Are you talking about a GrumoMedia video? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6teBPUgz4Y8
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Thanks! Let us know if your search is anything less than awesome. And /hotels includes Airbnb if you need a place to crash on the cheap...
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    You've deftly avoided commenting on our mascot. This is just one year into hipmunk - there's more to come. But even a year in, think of all the hours we've liberated for flight/hotel searchers to do other more productive things (like read H
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    And I highly recommend him (and have to plenty of startups). Check out the interview I did with him after we got the video - I was so impressed. http://blog.hipmunk.com/what-is-hipmunk-one-fan-answers-that...
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Thank you! Yes, that one was me. I asked our designer (he does all of our infographics and random designwork for me) to do a few of his own and it was a blast to watch a real artist at work: http://www.youtube.com/thehipmunk#p/u (He's the
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    I'm so thrilled for reddit! And yes, hipmunk has been going quite well :) thanks.
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    This.
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Steve and I did submit on reddit for the first few weeks after launch under multiple usernames (there were no comments or self-posts, so it was just link submissions). We also asked friends & family to use the site, and a few of them di
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    Aye, mostly true. But Google doesn't tell you anything about whether the fares are available at all, or what they would cost—it's possible a flight's sold out or prohibitively expensive. They also don't have mascot, or hotel search ;) I'll
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    Huffman Has No Immediate Plans to Sell Hipmunk (Bloomberg interview)(youtube.com)

    10 points by kn0thing 15y ago|1 comments
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    by kn0thing 15y ago

    So much love in this thread. Thanks, hipmunks!