Weekendflights

Find the cheapest weekend flights with one click

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Find the cheapest weekend flights with one click

7 followers

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Booking cheap weekend flights is challenging. When is the best date to fly back home? When is the best weekend to visit my friends? When should I travel with my family? 🤔 Compare all-year weekend and long weekend prices. Filter relevant departure hours. Direct flights only.

Launch tags:Global Nomad•Travel•Tech

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Travelgam

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Hey, ProductHunt 👋 after months of hard work, we are super pumped to say we are launching on PH! As an expat I had to learn the art of finding cheap weekend flights the hard way. Why is there no simple alternative to book and compare relevant flights? Problem: 👎 Existing booking solutions are too generic 🔍 It is difficult to compare multiple dates 🕓 Users spend hours comparing prices and searching for the best deals Solution: ✈️ Weekendflights allows you to compare all-year flights in an extremely simple way Features: 📅 Compare all-year weekend and long weekend flights 🎯 Filter departure days and times with a simple click ⭐ Direct return flights only ☑️ Clean and simple interface 🚥 Weekend prices mapped by colors 🔖 Cheapest price for each weekend

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8yr ago

Congratulations on the launch! Here's some initial feedback that may help you improve on what works and looks great so far. Hope you find it useful! "Book Cheap Weekend Flights" is a powerful value proposition, but I would definitely do some A/B testing with Facebook Ads or Unbounce to see which one resonates the most with your target audience. You might want to experiment a little with subtle variations like 'The easiest way to book cheap weekend flights' or 'Book the cheapest weekend flights'. Some testimonials may help to provide some validation with early users while you are gaining early traction and establishing your brand. You can remove them later on. The simple two colour design of the homepage reflects ease of use and simplicity, but in many cases a third colour helps to draw the users eye to key information and CTAs. Again, something to A/B test, but in my experience it definitely helps with Conversion Rate Optimisation. I would suggest to put the text "Mobile Apps coming very soon!" on the click instead of the rollover on the app store download buttons, this way you track the number of users who are interested in each OS. Alternatively, if you redirect them to temporary landing page and include a Facebook pixel, you will be able to retarget these same users later on with mobile ads. I have a feeling that the number displayed in "Comparing XXXXXXX weekend flights" is faked. The number increases so smoothly, it feels more like a timer than a true representation of actual processing. It may be better just to put "calculating..." Personally, I don't believe that there are 650,000+ flights for the weekend I searched, many users might also disbelieve this too. Establish trust is key. ;) I would use a combination of IP detection and flight origin to determine the logic for the initial currency selection and then allow users to change should they need to. I'm in Barcelona and searched for flights from Barcelona to Amsterdam, but was given flight costs in USD. The 3 colour traffic light system is nice way to communicate the cost of flights, but it might be better to allow a full range of tonality between red and green, in order to allow users to instantly zoom in on the cheapest flights. Also a nice symbol or badge to highlight the cheapest flight on the page will give the users a quick and simple visual reference to understand the relative cost of the flights they are looking at. Although your primary focus is weekends, I wouldn't necessarily prevent users from being able to search for flights that left or returned on other days. If a user is happy with your service, they may want to use it to for mid week trips too. Recurrent revenue is so much easier and profitable than new business. It would be useful to be able to filter the flight combinations that are displayed in the search results by departure, arrival and airline. Are there cheaper multi-stop flight options for longer haul destinations? ..and finally, the jump from the weekendflights.co website to the kiwi.com affiliate is quite abrupt. I would recommend some kind of delay and redirection prompt or some reskinning of the payment page to help transition users to help reduce drop-off in funnel conversion. Overall, great job. Wish you guys the best of luck! Barry @Growthclub.io

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8yr ago

Travelgam

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@growthclub @bwhite Congratulations on the launch! Here's some initial feedback that may help you improve on what works and looks great so far. Hope you find it useful! Thanks a lot! We are really glad you like it :) "Book Cheap Weekend Flights" is a powerful value proposition, but I would definitely do some A/B testing with Facebook Ads or Unbounce to see which one resonates the most with your target audience. You might want to experiment a little with subtle variations like 'The easiest way to book cheap weekend flights' or 'Book the cheapest weekend flights'. Awesome idea, we might even need to think about moving away from just weekends if we allow selecting any day of the week as @anna_0x pointed out. Some A/B testing will help us for sure on that. Some testimonials may help to provide some validation with early users while you are gaining early traction and establishing your brand. You can remove them later on. Agree, IMHO the whole home needs a redisign, I thought about adding an "as seen on" section but testimonials will definetely help build some trust as well. I'd like alsoto focus on usability and improve the search fields as @rahimiyosi mentioned. The simple two colour design of the homepage reflects ease of use and simplicity, but in many cases a third colour helps to draw the users eye to key information and CTAs. Again, something to A/B test, but in my experience it definitely helps with Conversion Rate Optimisation. Thanks for the tip, we will play with that as well. We could show the apps buttons in a more prominent color (as soon as they are ready...). I would suggest to put the text "Mobile Apps coming very soon!" on the click instead of the rollover on the app store download buttons, this way you track the number of users who are interested in each OS. Alternatively, if you redirect them to temporary landing page and include a Facebook pixel, you will be able to retarget these same users later on with mobile ads. Good point, initially I thought about displaying a dialog on click and ask the user for his email in case he wanted to be notified when the apps are ready. We did not know about the Facebook trick, genius. I have a feeling that the number displayed in "Comparing XXXXXXX weekend flights" is faked. The number increases so smoothly, it feels more like a timer than a true representation of actual processing. It may be better just to put "calculating..." Personally, I don't believe that there are 650,000+ flights for the weekend I searched, many users might also disbelieve this too. Establish trust is key. ;) hehe it is fake... we just wanted to show the user the website was actually searching for flights and not just hanging. But you are right, we will replace it with a loading bar. I would use a combination of IP detection and flight origin to determine the logic for the initial currency selection and then allow users to change should they need to. I'm in Barcelona and searched for flights from Barcelona to Amsterdam, but was given flight costs in USD. Good point, it's already on our TODO list to set the users local location and currency. At the moment we just add a cookie and preload departure airport and currency. The 3 colour traffic light system is nice way to communicate the cost of flights, but it might be better to allow a full range of tonality between red and green, in order to allow users to instantly zoom in on the cheapest flights. Also a nice symbol or badge to highlight the cheapest flight on the page will give the users a quick and simple visual reference to understand the relative cost of the flights they are looking at. We totally agree on having a legend with the color codes and price ranges. But we will discuss about the full range tonality too, thanks! Although your primary focus is weekends, I wouldn't necessarily prevent users from being able to search for flights that left or returned on other days. If a user is happy with your service, they may want to use it to for mid week trips too. Recurrent revenue is so much easier and profitable than new business. That's a very valid point too. It would be useful to be able to filter the flight combinations that are displayed in the search results by departure, arrival and airline. Are there cheaper multi-stop flight options for longer haul destinations? Noted, we will improve the filters and add indirect flights too. ..and finally, the jump from the weekendflights.co website to the kiwi.com affiliate is quite abrupt. I would recommend some kind of delay and redirection prompt or some reskinning of the payment page to help transition users to help reduce drop-off in funnel conversion. We did not think about that but it makes a lot of sense. We will add a transition to it. Overall, great job. Wish you guys the best of luck! Thank you so much to you @bwhite for taking the time to write such a great review!

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8yr ago

ntwrk

What about setting the departure city but not the arrival city? Would make finding cheap weekend adventures much more interesting.

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8yr ago

Travelgam

Maker

@joshuapinter thanks, Joshua. An open destination is something that many users are asking for, so we will do something about it for sure. You can subscribe to our newsletter and we will send you the cheapest destinations from a given origin. Many thanks for the feedback

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8yr ago

First off, I'd like to say that I love the idea and can think of a few people that I know that would also jump on this and use it. I love the simplicity of the site. I had a few of my searches come back in what I would consider a reasonable amount of time and a few that counted up to a million and never come back. Personally, I would would want to use this as a search for a weekend getaway with my wife and the destination wouldn't be as important as the dates. Could you either have an easy way to leave all of the dates/time info and just switch the destination or even say I only want to look for the next few weekends but I'd be interested in direct flights from my origin and a hand full of destinations. Perhaps a future feature?

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8yr ago

Travelgam

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@brian_coleman7 appreciate it! Searching time is something we will dramatically improve once we know the routes users are searching and already in discussions with flight data providers. On the other hand, the romantic gateway user case is something we will definitely work on in the future. The idea of open destinations given a specific origin is a must that we will implement shortly. By the way, you can subscribe to our newsletter where you will receive the cheapest weekend gateways from your origin airport. thanks for your feedback

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8yr ago

Is the site broken right now? It took a few minutes to load and takes a minute or two to autocomplete any of the locations I type in. There's also no button to submit the search. Chrome is also giving me a "Insecure Content Blocked" warning. Really want to try this so hopefully it's all fixed soon!

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8yr ago

Travelgam

Maker

@anujaya this should be fixed by now. We launched the MVP on Friday and we are working hard to catch up with the new traffic requirements... We will do our best

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8yr ago

@carlos_valls It's working! Liking it so far

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8yr ago

GUYS, did you shut this down?? Why?? It used to work so well! Now I get the error: "Error 403 - This web app is stopped. The web app you have attempted to reach is currently stopped and does not accept any requests. Please try to reload the page or visit it again soon.:

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8yr ago

Travelgam

Maker

@anna_0x it is running. We are actually preparing a 2.0 version with a first division partner. The product will find insane deals... Glad that you find it useful so far but wait for what is coming

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7yr ago

This is genius!!! I mean well, it's something everybody wants and has probably thought of but the execution is great! Suggestions: - let us choose any day as departure date, not only from Thu and after (this could be used for more than only weekend getaways) - when direct flights are not available at all, let us choose to see prices for connecting flights Issues: - when I searched for flights from ATH > OSL, it only shows me flights from the next 2 weekends and the rest of the monthly calendars are empty :)

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8yr ago

Travelgam

Maker

@anna_0x hey Anna! We are glad you liked it :) your first suggestion is a really good point, @carlos_valls and I talked about it and decided to limit the days (I was for allowing any day :P) an argument againts was that the UI looked too crowded but I'm sure we can find a solution for that. The second suggestion is also great, we will work on that! We are sorry about the issue I am working to find a solution, I will come back to you asap.

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8yr ago

@carlos_valls @eloyrubio sure, it's understandable that there are some small issues at the moment. In regards to more days cluttering the interface, I don't think that adding just 3 more day abbreviations would have such an effect. It will add a lot of functionality and will make this something that suited to everyone, not just those that wanna go on weekend trips.

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8yr ago

Travelgam

Maker

@anna_0x I analyzed the issue and the problem is that there are no direct flights on the other dates... Another reason to implement indirect flights on the next release ;)

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8yr ago

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