Cleartrip: How we redesigned everything

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14 points·cheeaun··11 comments

Very nice re-design, but you wouldn not be my choice to get tickets. You should invest more time in getting best deals. I am looking to travel next march from Beijing to Prague and on your site this trip starts at $650 while on other places I get get tickets as low as $530

It is an India centric OTA. I am not even sure why it is on the front page of hacker news. It is very big here though.

So, it doesn't deserve to be on the front page of Hacker News because it's Indian?

The content of this blog is certainly applicable to international audiences, but Cleartrip as a product works for Indian audiences. I didn't reply correctly to that comment about the user who is wondering why are prices between a european city and a city in china is so high. I should have explained it more clearly.

It probably deserves to be here ;)

As mentioned in the blog post. India has truly arrived.

Thanks for your feedback. Believe me, getting the prices are always a priority for us. We'll look into this.

You guyz are amazing. I have been following your website (and a regular customer) for some time now.

It was SO very refreshing to see that you made the flight search function Single Page Application.

The newer even Flat design along with EXCELLENT UX design make your service very pleasant to use. You guys are the BEST tavel site IMO in India by leaps and bounds.

Keep up the good work.. Who's your UX person ?

Thanks. glad you liked the redesign.

Would like to know more about the SPA. Did you guys use Backbone or something else. and more details about the challenges...

You can find the details of the front end architecture in one of our older blog posts:

http://blog.cleartrip.com/2012/04/10/cleartrip-account-gets-...

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