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by todsul 14y ago
And here are some of the details of the business class itinerary for $3,630. Keep in mind that a similar itinerary from the same expert came in at $2569. That itinerary didn't win because we couldn't verify it online. The expert suggested
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi rj, Here are the details for the economy itinerary, which was $1730 for 6 Continents. We're working with the expert of the business class itinerary to see what details he's happy for us to post. JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta
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by todsul 14y ago
Nginx can handle much higher loads than Varnish in many situations. Check this out for a look at Nginx's architecture: http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi martin, The only registration options are 1) becoming a customer, or 2) becoming an expert. There's no advantage to registering because only customers can see flight details for their contests and only experts can post flight options. Ot
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi ajays, sorry for the confusion; we only verified flights by hand for this contest because it was somewhat contentious. With other contests, we let the contest holder rate/vet entries. If a flight hacker repeatedly enters bogus flights, w
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by todsul 14y ago
We can definitely see that contest coming up soon. With this contest we thought sub-$2k would be a huge stretch, but the flight hackers seemed to manage it with ease. For business, we can't imagine it being less than $5-6k, but we'll see. S
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi Lusr, we'll definitely do this for the next big contest and we'll make sure we get prior approval from the winning expert. Appreciate your comments re exposure, but it's not the contest holder we're worried about; it's more an issue of p
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by todsul 14y ago
List price (for minimum monthly spend) is in the 10s of thousands, but of course everyone does deals to reduce fees at this level. The problem is that those data feeds don't hold the key to the best flights. We're trying to leverage the stu
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by todsul 14y ago
Love the idea; we'll definitely give it some thought, especially how the experts can profit from these fees well after they post the flight option. Aside: we really didn't expect this post to get to the top of HN. Our intern was running aro
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi hahla, please see my post above. We've listed the individual flights and airlines. All the best.
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by todsul 14y ago
As you can imagine, this is a fairly big challenge for us. As we grow it will become less important because experts in your timezone will tend to reply, but now, we simply implore customers to book quickly. We haven't had too many issues be
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by todsul 14y ago
Hey mseebach, We had a few issues in the beginning defining these border countries and decided to allow Istanbul as Europe, but will definitely group it for Asia in future. We had a handful of difficult decisions, but luckily the winning en
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by todsul 14y ago
Just to follow up on laumac's comment, the booking instructions tend to be a large part of the secret sauce. In this case, we fully verified them and all the flights were bookable at the time of verification. We disallowed a few itineraries
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi science_robot, The entire premise of Flightfox is that humans beat machines. Of course, in some cases if you only consider price this is debatable, but in many more cases, humans really do win. Why? Because there is a lot of flight data
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by todsul 14y ago
Done, please see above.
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi actuary, Apologies for the confusion. Typically, a customer puts up a contest so our flight hackers can find them the best or cheapest flight.Often this contains a lot of personal information, as well as the secrets of our flight experts
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by todsul 14y ago
Here are the winning flight details: This is a 6-Continent RTW itinerary for $1,730. We personally verified that it's a valid itinerary, and at the time of checking, all flights could be booked. JFK 18-Oct-2012 GEO 18-Oct-2012 Delta (N
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi Zwass, working on it right now. Just trying to keep the server up. But we'll get to it as soon as we can. For most contests it's important that only the contest holder can see the details, because they're often quite personal. But in thi
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by todsul 14y ago
Hi there, in one respect you're right; we absolutely value human-power in flight search, which is why we're crowdsourced. But compared to traditional agents, we're much more aligned to your interests. Our experts don't take commissions, so
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by todsul 14y ago
Sorry all, we've put up a cached version on the live site, so it's loading now. We'll also post details of the flights here so you can see how the trip was created.
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Apple blocks Samsung selling Galaxy Tablet in US(news.com.au)
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Join our Symfony (YC S12)
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by todsul 14y ago
Hey qeorge, thanks for the comments. Flightfox exploits inefficiencies in algorithmic search using good ol' people power. That means, for the most part, material savings of time and money. Clearly we're not talking about 1-hour flights betw
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Flightfox (YC S12) Raises $800k to Crowdsource Flight Search(techcrunch.com)
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by todsul 14y ago
"It's very difficult to survive in the desert for twelve days..." My co-founder survived in the Desert for 52 days after crossing the Gobi Desert entirely on foot in 2011. Not all deserts are 50C every day and explorers can be quite hardy.
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by todsul 14y ago
I can't help but think tipping in the US is a false economy. Having arrived a couple of months ago, I've felt obliged to tip to subsidize wages rather than reward good service. I've been told off for not tipping enough rather than asked wha
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by todsul 15y ago
Many cities like to claim this, but NY barely makes the top 10. For example, Dubai has way over 75% foreign residents. And cities like Toronto and Sydney are both statistically and anecdotally more culturally diverse. I'd be more interested
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by todsul 15y ago
Hey joshwa, The experts tend to keep their methods to themselves. Some have trade secrets, but in the simplest cases, it takes time to find the best airports and connections, so they'd rather not share the info. They've even suggested we hi
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by todsul 15y ago
Many thanks bullseye. If you think you could get value from experts do the searching and giving suggestions, then give it a try and we'll refund you if you aren't satisfied. But if you're just flying between two large cities, you really are
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by todsul 15y ago
Hi stfu, thanks for the comment... Consider these simple examples: * Flying for the first time to Australia. Expedia gives you a price from Sydney to Perth for $500. Unbeknownst to you, there's a discount airline called "XXXXX" who does thi

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