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@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?

@mikelholford Thanks Mike! Yes messaging is intended for both before, and during the flight. We are aware that not all airlines currently offer in flight wifi, but we will be featuring news and comparisons of airlines that offer 'connected' flights, be they free or paid etc to better inform the community, and frequent flyers as a whole.

@bradleyengel Hi Brad, thanks :) We already have polls that users can take part in, ranging from in flight ratings, to telling people if they are flying for business or pleasure. But yes we have both games (I actually started my dev career coding IRC trivia bots some 15+ years ago :P), and gamification elements planned. This specifically is something we are very excited about as it will increase engagement, and bring extra value to our users. Also agreed on other forms of travel. Something we have picked up on, however we believe the key to success is finding a niche and doing that really well. Definitely not ruling it out, but we are focusing on the flight aspect of things for now.

@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!

@illaigescheit No direct integration to users LinkedIn at the moment, however in its easiest form (a link) fairly simple. Could also login with LinkedIn and pull data directly, will add to the list, good idea! We have plans to show users that frequently cross paths, but I like the idea of showing it on a map. Maps always make things feel a lot more visual, as have done some cool stuff with them on other projects, another good one for phase 2 me thinks. Thanks Illai :)