Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]

Hmm.<p>I don't think the natural language input is a very good idea. It's very error prone and only works correctly if you actually know what language it supports. I tried it and it got confused. Also it didn't correctly recognize a three letter airport code that I used.<p>To be frank I've found that Kayak has the best interface for doing this and there's no need to select which sites to search, etc. The interface here does not seem like an improvement.<p>And maybe it's just me but when I hear 'peedo' I think paedophile and so this company sounds like its name is 'try paedo' to me.

I don't like the pop ups, I want comparable data not 20 different pages, all of which I have to dig through before I get my information.

I for one welcome our new meta meta meta travel search engine overlords. :)<p>It worked really well for me. I loved the natural language search, one of the things that beats me down with travel search engines is having to select my date on their little calenders and then figuring out the airport codes of the airports I want to go into.<p>The 2 dozen browser tabs were pretty neat, on a low memory machine that might get annoying, but for my pc it was smooth.<p>One recommendation I have on the natural language sort is to have it recognize times of day i want to leave like morning, afternoon, etc

Also opening a couple dozen new browser windows is a good way to ensure your site is only used once.

That is a great site, beats all others hands down. Pop-ups suck, but still beats the other sites. I love entering the date in words.

If you are going to create a new site in this space it has to be at least as good as Kayak. Tripeedo fails horribly. As others have mentioned, a site that simply opens numerous windows with the results from each site is not adequate.

FF3 and IE7's pop up blockers prevent access to search results. This is default browser behavior. How many people know or care about disabling pop up blocking for individual sites (or changing any defaults, for that matter)?

I had a frustrating experience with the site. Took me longer to get what I wanted than if I had gone to Kayak (the market leader) or Jetblue (that normally runs my best fare).<p>What, if I may ask, was the vision and rationale behind this approach?

once I selected all "travel sites" &#38; all "airlines", i got a warning "you are about to open 20 tabs" and I promptly closed the tab. I don't like the idea of opening that many tabs or the fact that I need to select individual airlines or sites. I rather get all the data in 1 page first and then filter by removing airlines/ sites.<p>I really like the cleartrip guys when it comes to travel/ticket booking. It's mostly India only but check out the UI &#38; usability -- really nice. <a href="http://cleartrip.com" rel="nofollow">http://cleartrip.com</a>

Site works fine for me in Chrome.<p>A lot of travel agencies have systems that actually can check all airlines for their flight information. I would suggest you look into that and run off of a hybrid between server and queries instead of waiting for an API and in the meantime tell people something is easy when in fact it really isn't. Most of my queries return errors on the pop-ups.

Most meta travel sites like this get their commissions one of two ways, either a commission for booking a flight, or a click through commission to the travel site. It is in tripeedo's best interest to open as many popups as possible.<p>They are adding little to no value on the flight pricing. Thumbs down.

What I was really <i>hoping</i> to find here was a travel search site that let me find cheap fares without necessarily having firm dates in mind. To me, Tripeedo just puts the functionality of kayak in a slightly different UI, as opposed to offering a new way to interact with the data itself.

Disappointing .. Doesn't really work with all the airline sites that it has on main page.

Seriously, I love the pop ups. I believe you have to respect the boundaries of different companies (jetblue, southwest, etc). The amount of time that this saves on my flight purchasing is huge. Well done!

Yikes, that was an awful experience. I didn't know it would open tabs, so I selected all items. And of all the tabs it opened, almost none gave me any useful information.

First we had aggregators like Kayak, Expedia and Farecast. That's clearly too much work, so now with Tripeedo we have aggregators for the aggregators!

I'd never thought someone would compete with Orbitz.

This site doesn't load in Chrome for me (aw snap error). Is anyone else getting that?<p>I'm running Chrome 2 on Windows 7.

i need tehcnical support: on firefox 3 it first blocked pop-ups, so i enabled and got a spew of opened tabs with no search results found (see my other comment). when i tried to search again ff keeps blocking the pop-ups, even though i keep enabling them. !!! nuts, i really want to buy cheap plane tickets :P i'll keep trying.

Wow, that was annoying. Opening two dozen browser windows without warning, half of which contain errors? Not cool.

Is the parsing algorithm for the location and date proprietary or is it based on something existing? If so, what?

Awesome UI. I'm blown away.

i don't seem to get the popups :(