Hipmunk Launches Flight Deals

Hmm it offered me a flight from Oakland to Vegas for $88. I clicked through and saw this: "The price we showed you earlier for this search is no longer available. We apologize for the inconvenience. ​" and lowest price was $108. :(<p>Edit: I tried again with different dates and was able to find a flight for $88. So guess it just needs some fine tuning.

I'm not sure why this is news. (I'm not being sarcastic -- just curious if/how this is different from the million existing from-your-city flight deal notification sites.)

Hmmm, the campaign has San Francisco in the URL referral link. Why not pre-pop the correct city based on my IP Address? You'd get a better conversion rate if it said deals in New York City, where I live, rather than deals flying from San Francisco. I know Hacker News has a sizeable following in SF, but still.

Your guys should do something about your ads on Reddit.<p>I think those are making people annoyed with the service.

Love it. It would be nice to be able to subscribe to certain specific time frames, e.g., over the weekend; it's much easier to impulsively travel then while holding down a traditional full-time position. Nevertheless, subscribed!

This is huge. <a href="http://www.theflightdeal.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theflightdeal.com/</a> has been quietly doing it for a year and it's awesome. I'd buy stock if I could.

It seems to be us only :(

We do something similar for our Explore feature on MileWise, just our deals include prices in reward points. We compare current prices to historical trends to figure out if a price is a "good" option. I like Hipmunk's idea of Subscribing to specific deal feeds.<p>Would love feedback: <a href="http://milewise.com/mw#explore" rel="nofollow">http://milewise.com/mw#explore</a>

I find airfarewatchdog.com much better. Usually get alerts and able to find deal price as quoted. If you have flexibility in dates, these services are pretty good.

Not so great, most deals listed are lowest price, which is always Spirit Airlines, this is not the real price you pay most of the time, and after experience flying with them, honestly I wouldn't use them ever again. If they can filter them out, this would be interesting service.