MileHi

@h0rseh0rse Looks awesome! Will it ever support wifi-free messaging via Bluetooth like FireChat?

@oassoulin Thanks! We have had a few requests for this today on here and twitter. Its definitely on the list, however will have to increase its priority based on the requests. We have seen it on FireChat and Jott, and think it works really well, however as the lifespan of a flight chat for us is potentially months, the flight itself is a very small part of that. Watch this space :)

@fiessedouard Hi Fiess, thanks very much :) We actually stumbled across the Wingman guys recently. I think they are both similar, but they have narrowed their sights on the whole Tinder / dating aspect. This is something people can do on MileHi if they wish, however we believe there are huge opportunities in the business networking space, and general holiday makers too. Best of luck to both of them, and it validates our idea nicely, however we think there's a whole host of different use cases for MileHi. Being niche is good, but being multiple nested niches may restrict their potential too much.

@fiessedouard Oh and also, I bet Wingman wished they had our name... ;)

@h0rseh0rse ahhahaah I bet they do :) I agree on the dating VS business part! Good luck to you guys!

@walterareid and that's a great question. The critical size is quite high and it's definitely the biggest challenge.

@walterareid I am glad you brought this up! This was a topic of hot discussion during our planning and research phases :) We recognised this early on, and at this stage have covered this off by letting you browse flights to the same destination +- 24 hours. So if you are off to Ibiza for example, and want to meet some party people, any other global flights TO Ibiza in that time frame will also let you swipe left and right and join in the chat there too. We also have a large expansion for the chat rooms planned, focused around chatting topics (business, holiday, partying, etc), as well as airport centric chat rooms. This should increase the chance of encounters greatly.

@itsdevlin Interesting point Sean! During development we went through about 4 iterations of the date input. The current implementation felt the most fool proof of the lot, especially with ambiguous date formats eg UK / USA. Will definitely revisit and likely A/B test too, thanks for the tip!

@h0rseh0rse The other quick point of feedback was that the form for entering a flight seemed frustratingly difficult. Autocompletes weren't pulling the airlines as I'd expect, airports weren't pulling predictably (Ie, i typed in OAK and Oakland wasn't the first result). Have you checked out http://constructor.io ? @elifinkel is the Founder and I think their service could help you guys out a ton with simplifying those entry fields. Also the carrier code on the flight was required which I thought was weird. I've flown 600k miles on Southwest and didn't know their carrier code was UW. Could you combine autocomplete and the flight # to get the info you need without prompting the user for it?

@itsdevlin Agreed the add flight needs a bit of rethinking. Eventually we want to tie in with live flight data, so a lot of the fields will be automated / selecting from only existing options. Will have a look at Constructor though in the mean time :) And unsure what you mean re: not needing the carrier code. The flight number is generally a number, prefixed with the IATA or ICAO carrier code. Unless you mean show carriers operating from that route to choose from?

@milesb Hi Miles, great name yourself ;) And yes, we have had a lot of love towards the name, people seem to like the double entendre, plus nice and snappy / memorable too! If you could provide any feedback on the app, we would be all ears

@ems_hodge would love to hear about your experience with it, make sure you let us know!