Avionero

Avionero is the world's most flexible flight search

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Avionero is the world's most flexible flight search

2 followers

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We help you to easily find the cheapest and most convenient flight tickets from San Francisco, with the largest inventory of flights on the internet.

Launch tags:Travel•Artificial Intelligence•Tech

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This is an awesome idea and super impressive for a product still in Beta. A lot of my friends use Scott's Cheap Flights to find deals but I love your application of technology to provide better results in addition to valuable, data-driven insights. An automatic-Scott's Cheap Flights-esque notification service that links to the actual flights would be incredible :) I'm curious though, why do you think other travel companies (with ample capital and talent) have avoided building these types of features? Seems crazy to think nobody at Kayak or Expedia has ever suggested flexible departure and arrival dates, or searching by an entire country, etc.

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7yr ago

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Maker

Hi Steve, Yes, that is an interesting question. As you may read above (or about in our blog: https://avionero.com/blog/post/t...), I've been at several companies in the industry - trying to raise these limitations in how all sites are built today. There is a combination of reasons to why other companies haven't taken up on this in a satisfying way, and one of the main one is technological limitations. The search technology behind almost all flight price comparison sites today is very simplistic and straight forward. Sure, there are modern caching techniques, etc. but the core search technology is all the same. So whenever I've been suggesting these more open and flexible - in essence more human - ways of searching, I've always been met with "It's impossible". So to overcome that I sat down and draw out a whole new type of search technology, that instead makes use of modern AI and Information Retrieval theory. I then met Anton, who could turn the power of that search technology into a stunning and easy to use interface. ... and that's what became Avionero. :) PS. We are already sketching on an automatic flight price tracking feature. ;)

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7yr ago

Hello. How is AI involved in this product? I'm a developer, and from what I see in here, it's just a matter of crawling and displaying the best results for the user. I hope I'm wrong.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@mihai_mangu Hi Mihai! Thanks for your question, missed it somehow :) If we speak about looking for a best flight in a scope of thousands of combinations ("from New York to France in August for a week"), it's not just a matter of crawling all the options, it's simply not possible. So here how our AI takes part: first it determines what to search, based on user persona & requirements, and then it defines what to present and then it decides what to present after that, analysing your activity. @lars_kristensson could speak much more about it, he was working with AI in gaming :)

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7yr ago

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Maker

@mihai_mangu Yes, as Anton is saying, we are searching a space of possible options that are prohibitively large to go through exhaustively, by magnitudes. So what we do is that we are tying to find the options in this huge space that are most likely to fit your particular preferences, in a kind of hierarchical manner using multiple phases of both predictive analytics and set theory.

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7yr ago

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Maker

Hey guys! Anton here, Avionero co-founder and product designer. We are really excited to present the project of our life and passion: Avionero 🎉 Personally, I’ve been travelling a lot during the past years and I was always wondering: why do most of the current flight search sites work the same way? They allow you to search only when you provide specific dates & destination, occasionally provide outdated prices and push you to purchase with so many ads and dark patterns. I’ve always wanted to do something about it. Together with Lars we strive to create a truly new flight search experience which will work the way you need it, not the way it was built for years. Some of the cool features we've been working so far: 📆 Have flexibility in dates? Select date ranges or specify a trip period 🌍 Search for a whole country, not only cities and airports 📉 Not sure when to travel? Check route details with monthly/weekly prices 🏖 Not sure where to go? Explore our suggestions ✈️ Keep all your searches in one place using tabs 🔍 No Search button for a smoother exploration experience 🔮 Vote on what country we will open up next! Our main difference: live prices on flexible travel parameters. While other sites (like Kayak for example) are making a decent job, you still need to pick specific destination and dates until you see the actual prices & flight options. While you can still see some prices on a nice map, these prices are cached – which means they could dramatically change when you perform an actual search. Thanks to our AI search engine, Avionero always show you live prices and flight options. We really appreciate all feedback and input, we make this product for you at the first place! Cheers! P.S. We have a very small easter egg onsite for Product Hunters. Can you spot it? :)

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7yr ago

Nice project! Like the design and flexible dates feature. Do you plan to use map more? Now it’s kind of empty with only few dots.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@roman_kirichenko Thanks for your feedback, Roman! Yes, the map is not used fully right now, we are planning to show not only cities dots, but also add an information about prices & flight durations. Also we want to use a map as another entry point for a traveller to pick his desired destination. But how did you use our flexible search? :)

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7yr ago

Been a user since launch and really seen some improvements the past 6 months. Looking forward to what Avionero will bring to the future of flight search. Good luck!

Pros:

Its simple, love the tabs, very useful when you are flexible with multiple dates option - on top of that its very easy on the eye

Cons:

Would like to see more features in the future for example multi-city.

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7yr ago

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Maker

Awesome! Thanks for using the product and following us :) Yes, multi-city search is a tough one, we are definitely going to approach that and want to really crack it properly.

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7yr ago

It is very helpful how can you select flexible dates, I can mark a range of dates in the calendar and it will search in this range. I also like the feature that allows you to search fly tickets for an entire country. Very beautiful Inspirational pages by the way.

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7yr ago

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Maker

@alberto_caeiro_de_pessoa Thank you, Alberto!

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7yr ago