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New YC Startup: Adioso ("casual travel")

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Absolutely love the concept.

One hangup nitpicking about grammar. See here: http://adioso.com/airport/cheap-flights-sydney.syd.html

You have "International Flights to Sydney," but then the list is {Sydney to Aipa, Sydney to Auckland} -> the depart and arrive need to be switched to make sense.

The domestic flights have it displayed correctly so it looks like something just got switched around.

Gorgeous UI, slightly odd architecture of said UI: Why are the cities so random?

Agreed.

Also, more businesses involving content search should have their search box in a prominent location.

its not finding any of the dozen searches I ran.

also is there a reason why most of the examples have to do with Australia?

I think they are from Australia. I see a lot of different asia countries in the list too.

Spot on. The flights are pretty much all australia/south-east asia at the moment. We're not officially launched yet (I'm co-founder at Adioso, btw) and site is in beta using a subset of full airline data, hence the lack of results people have noticed for USA/etc.

It wasn't intended that we'd really be used outside of Australia yet, but demo day has had some interesting publicity side effects :)

You can see what they index here: http://adioso.com/about?r=hf - which is growing.

(They're an Aussie startup).

Capturing the first click on the search input destroys my usual form habits. I can see doing that once when I first arrive, but after that it gets annoying fast, as I have to click, then double-click to select before I hit backspace and type, which is the usual way of handling form fields that have bogus data prefilled.

This is on Safari on OSX, by the way.

It appears that this is Australian-based at this time? Not of much value to US consumers until it gets populated with relevant data from US airports (I cannot even pick "Seattle" as my home airport at this time).

I'm not sure how this brings me more value than Kayak or Farecast, but I did think the integration with facebook connect was nifty - nicely done! :)

Anybody else getting (a lot of) errors?

All destination pages give me some sort of generic error page (Symfony PHP framework).

It seems like they try to do geolocation according to IP and international visitors trigger some untested code path.

Cool idea but doesnt track my route (pittsburgh to boston).

As a side note, the official interface for trying to do this is quite annoying, and this 'beta' is promising.

You are doing the right thing by focusing on non-US markets and making deals with these little carriers. They're under-served at the moment.

kind of interesting but needs more flights. For instance, JFK to LAX has 0 hits.

So what does this do for me beyond all the other "cheap flight" websites?

I believe it shows you interesting destinations, or something.

My next trip is from Bangkok, Thailand to Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. Other comparison sites like Kayak found the cheapest price to be $184, this one found the correct choice which is Air Asia at $55. Currently there seems to be no site where I could go and trust that it really gives me the best prices, so getting one more option to search on is great.

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