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Henry Bayuzick — UX Designer
This looks great! Are these all one-way flights or will you be sending round-trip prices as well? And how far in advance are the flights usually? Are we talking tomorrow, this weekend, or this month? Awesome product though! Thanks!
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@henrybayuzick Messed up my original reply.
Quick answer to all: it depends on the deal!
Most tend to be round trips, but some are one-way. Most deals tend to have pretty good availability (for example, in December I booked NYC-Johannesburg for $270 in September. Very far out!) but sometimes you only have a month or two (or sometimes only a week or two!).
Quick answer to all: it depends on the deal!
Most tend to be round trips, but some are one-way. Most deals tend to have pretty good availability (for example, in December I booked NYC-Johannesburg for $270 in September. Very far out!) but sometimes you only have a month or two (or sometimes only a week or two!).
Ross@GoLocalApps — GoLocalApps
Dude, you are my new best friend. Seriously. Going to keep this secret from my wife just so I can be the amazing husband that sweeps her off on weekend vacations more often.
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@golocalapps Sounds like a good plan to me.
"Hey honey, I just booked us two tickets to South Africa. Spent less than $500! total"
That's going to be worth some major brownie points.
"Hey honey, I just booked us two tickets to South Africa. Spent less than $500! total"
That's going to be worth some major brownie points.
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
Maker here, paying attention. Let me know if you have any questions!
This came out of me booking a few of these crazy deals, and people kept telling me to let them know next time I found one... so here we are!
This came out of me booking a few of these crazy deals, and people kept telling me to let them know next time I found one... so here we are!
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@paulsolt The scroller at the top are all real deals I've sent people on. Rio, South Africa, US Virgin Islands, Iceland, Kuala Lumpur, Panama...
Tiffany Zhong — VC @BinaryCap, formerly @ProductHunt
@zacharycohn you should make people pay/tip you if you find them something they like, rather than monthly fee.
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@tzhongg A tipping system would be interesting. Hadn't thought of that yet. Thanks!
Taylor Edmiston — Lead Backend Developer, LISNR
@zacharycohn Are they low fare class tickets, likely to be stand by, etc.?
Would be cool to see a sample, even one batch of past flights before I'd hand over my cc.
Would be cool to see a sample, even one batch of past flights before I'd hand over my cc.
Tim Jones — Founder of @GiffitiApp
This has always been a pain-point for me, however I hesitate @ the monthly fee without knowing the methodology around finding, booking and confirming flights.
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@timbjones Great question!
1) There's about ten sites, and another dozen or so twitter accounts, that I monitor. I'll regularly send people to some of these sites for more info, but my service is so you don't have to monitor them all on a constant basis yourself.
2) When I see a great deal (I'm using 50% off normal prices as my litmus test for now. May adjust that up or down depending on feedback), I send an email out to all the subscribers with the details on how to find it and how to book.
3) I send a text to everyone who opted in to getting a text with a summary of the deal and a reminder to check their email!
Does that help answer your question?
1) There's about ten sites, and another dozen or so twitter accounts, that I monitor. I'll regularly send people to some of these sites for more info, but my service is so you don't have to monitor them all on a constant basis yourself.
2) When I see a great deal (I'm using 50% off normal prices as my litmus test for now. May adjust that up or down depending on feedback), I send an email out to all the subscribers with the details on how to find it and how to book.
3) I send a text to everyone who opted in to getting a text with a summary of the deal and a reminder to check their email!
Does that help answer your question?
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
Henry - Quick answer to all: it depends on the deal!
Most tend to be round trips, but some are one-way. Most deals tend to have pretty good availability (for example, in December I booked NYC-Johannesburg for $270 in September. Very far out!) but sometimes you only have a month or two (or sometimes only a week or two!).
Most tend to be round trips, but some are one-way. Most deals tend to have pretty good availability (for example, in December I booked NYC-Johannesburg for $270 in September. Very far out!) but sometimes you only have a month or two (or sometimes only a week or two!).
Joanne J — Founder, LadyMarry
is struggling about buying airtickets. Good to know. But maybe I'm too mean, I won't pay for a monthly subscription for a non-regular thing.
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ZacharyCohn — Founder, Wonful Consulting
@joannejrr It's regular, just not on a schedule. And if you're not comfortable paying the price of a subscription to netflix to save $500-$1000 on a flight... that's okay! This is targeted at a specific type of person.
Kunal Tandon — kunaltandon.com
Very cool- how often can you expect a new flight deal once you identify where you will be flying out from?
Gillian Morris — CEO, Hitlist
I'd be curious to see what this does that @hitlist_app doesn't already do for free.
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