Opaque

Reveal hidden hotel deals and save up to 60%

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Reveal hidden hotel deals and save up to 60%

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Hotels offer discounts of up to 60% with hidden deals on sites like Hotwire™. Normally, you don’t know the name of a hidden deal hotel until after you book. Opaque reveals the hotel behind each hidden deal in advance, so you know exactly what you’re getting.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Travel

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?makers how exactly do you find out which hotels Hotwire and others are listing at heavy discounts?

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6yr ago

Opaque

Maker

@rrhoover Both hidden and retail hotel listings include a number of data points, such as amenities, neighborhood, and review score. By combining all these data points, it's relatively straightforward to match up hidden listings to their corresponding retail listings with high confidence. In fact, my original inspiration for Opaque was that I found myself doing this matching manually when booking on Hotwire, and realized it would be easy to do programmatically as well. Thanks for checking out Opaque!

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6yr ago

This app helps you save a ton of money when traveling. Getting to see the hotels behind hidden rates gives you a great deal with confidence.

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6yr ago

Congrats on the launch!

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6yr ago

Could the website explain a bit more? It looks great, but I'm guessing it's targeted at US only?

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6yr ago

Opaque

Maker

@giles_dawe Opaque works worldwide, though we still have work to do on internationalizing the units and copy. We don't offer bookings through our website at this time - to book, please download the mobile app. Thanks!

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6yr ago

Agree with @giles_dawe - the website could share a bit more information. I like the idea in principle @will_johnson

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6yr ago

Awesome execution. I've found myself doing the same manual process of elimination and doing this programmatically was a great idea. It looks like you are charging a $5 commission by spying on the hotwire checkout session? I couldn't figure out how else you can charge the same card hotwire is charging without collecting payment info elsewhere on the app. What is stopping people then from making the hotwire booking on their own in a separate browser that you can't spy on to avoid the $5 commision?

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6yr ago

Soo let’s say I have access to Expedia travel agent portal can I contribute

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6yr ago

Love the product! Is there a way to make reservations for more than 2 people?

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6yr ago