I posted my side project a while back (http://flightlite.com) a very visual flight tracking tool for flights currently in the air.<p>I've just been hit with more traffic in 20 minutes than the two months the site has been live, it's a bit slow.<p>I've been struggling to find a way to justify the data costs for running the service (it's not an issue considering the low traffic up to now) and I'd stuck it on the back burner while doing some bread and butter work.<p>I really want to find a sponsor to help cover the data costs and of course get some lovely prominent branding on the site. I need around £1-2000 pcm to service up to 1,000,000 visits with better hardware and pay the per-transaction data costs.<p>Is anyone interested? Does anyone know anyone who might be interested?<p>For now I don't care about making any money off it - it's a labour of love. But with some time to evaluate options it could be profitable I'm sure!
@phlux "Make it so that you can see "all flights out of SFO/into SFO" by that carrier - then list the tickets available for each of the flights/destinations in the next few days."<p>Agreed, and then...<p>- Contact the site admins for the major airport hubs (SFO, LAX, ORD, JFK) and sell to them
- Contact all those independent Wifi operators at airports and sell them, they're hungry for content
- Contact Virgin, Richard's guys are always up for something new & different!
- Add Twilio.com SMS API, a "GroupMe" for flight notification?
It might help to mention the stack you're on, as well as your current hosting setup. Maybe someone can help you by letting you borrow a few servers, or help you tweak things.
I've now had four times the traffic of the past two months in one hour. The first time something like this has happened to one of my projects - it's quite exciting!
Interesting, I started a site in 2005 (flightr.com) that was to allow you to pick flights based on a certain price and see on google maps what legs flew out of any given airport given that price... Kind of like a destination lottery.<p>The project died after I couldn't get much interest in it. But I still have the domain - took everything offline some time ago though...<p>After about a year or so, the same features started popping up in sites like kayak.<p>(although that may be in part to me showing early revs to a buddy who worked there)