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kevinjoling

187 karma · joined January 22, 2017

FlightConnections.com
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kevinjoling··on Show HN: SQL Trainer – Learn SQL by doing live data exercises
Nice! Would love to see this, but for complex queries.
kevinjoling··on Show HN: Share company announcements in your coworkers' new tab
A homepage which you will see every time you open a new tab, instead of once a day.

I think it's pretty useful and will make the chance of people actually reading them a lot higher, right?

kevinjoling··on Show HN: We completely rebuilt our Travel Discovery Engine
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kevinjoling··on Show HN: We completely rebuilt our Travel Discovery Engine
Nice! That's exactly the use case we had in mind rebuilding it :D
kevinjoling··on Show HN: We completely rebuilt our Travel Discovery Engine
Hey guys!

For the past 6 months my brother and I have been rebuilding our travel tool,

which now finds the best travel deals to anywhere in the world - instantly.

We'd really appreciate your feedback!

Compared to first version, DESTIGOGO 2.0 contains a lot of innovations - including:

- Flexible date range search

- Advanced ‘Travel Theme’ filtering options

- Compare Flights from all airports near you

- Bucketlist feature to save destinations for later

- Instagram integration

- 2.000+ Destinations

- Not only big ‘Airport Cities’, but smaller villages with an airport nearby as well

- Flights integration in cooperation with Skyscanner

- Accommodation integration in cooperation with Booking.com

We are curious about what you guys think and happy to answer any questions you have!

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Hi! Wanted to let you know that we fixed the airport bug! It should work as supposed now! :D
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Haha thanks Gambetta! :)

Allright, we'll think about how to implement that one!

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thank you for mentioning, will fix :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
We have! But currently temp is related to currency (USD = Fahrenheit, all others are Celsius), that's a little mistake we made. We'll make a separate option for temp.
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thanks vijay :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Great to hear :D
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thanks a lot kev!
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Ahh, will fix!
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thanks a lot man! Appreciate it :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
You accepted push notifcations :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Mm that's weird.. Which browser do you use on your phone? We haven't heird of this problem yet so could you provide some more info so we can look into this? :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Great to hear! Ah we don't support ZAR yet. We do in Celsius, but for now it's related to USD :') So when you select another currency (EUR for example) you should see that temperatures will be changed to Celsius.
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thank you! Sure :) We just jused HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript (+ JQuery) & PHP for backend. Nothing too fancy actually :D
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Wow! Thank for your great amount of feedback wanda! Learnt a lot from this :D

Thanks for putting so much work in writing this all, really appreciate it! Will implement these optimizations ASAP!

Our code indeed looks awfull but we just wanted to ship now, since we just finished it and it functioned well enough. We decided to clear it up later (very soon though) so your tips and suggestions are amazing :)

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Hi Raresp!

Thank you for your awesome feedback!

1) True, but it belongs to Zakynthos island, where Tsivili is located. Sometimes we had to choose for a more general place near the city we are mentioning, to get a decent image. And since it is very near, we think it's ok (When you will go to Tsivili, you definately will visit Navagio beach (Shipwreck Beach).

2) Planning to!

3) Good one! Is it ok to generate it dynamically (does Google find it in then?)

4) We'll thake that into account! But we'll first focus on developing the web app further and add features :)

Thank you!

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Hi skykooler! We will change it soon, but for now you need to select an airport from the dropdown list to ensure that the dates become visible.
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Hey yaur! I'll respond to the points you made:

1) I think that's an incident, we've collected all the images by hand - so the error rate should be very low. Apparently we made a mistake for the blue mountains, canada - so thanks for mentioning :)

2) True, we'll implement current temps very soon :)

3) Working on that, for now you need to select an airport from the dropdown list to ensure that the dates become visible.

4) Sure, we'll fix that.

Thank your for your feedback yaur. That would be awesome :)

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thank you bartread :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thank you!

We are planning to make that work soon :)

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thank you!!
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Thanks, we will! :)

Some great additional options you mention there. For now, we have chosen to take averages for most of things to keep things simple and don't have the user to think about every detail. Besides, these variables differ heavily (oil prices per country differ, fuel consumption per car too, etc.)

Visa information is a think we have planned to add very soon :) Also more additional information like that we are planning to implement soon :D

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Haha I agree, maybe we should exclude cities within -say- a 50km range :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
In general I would agree, but we thought this could be a nice way to reach out and thank the people who supported us today :)
kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
Yeah it depends on the length of the text. Sometimes it looks a bit weird, so i agree that it is a little UX issue.

We are planning to work that out soon :)

Thanks a lot for your feedback mjolk.

kevinjoling··on Show HN: A travel tool to discover destinations based on your budget
That's true, we launched on ProductHunt today and wanted to thank all the people who supported us this way :)
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