Hitlist, a Smart Flight Finder That Saves You Money by Telling You When To Fly

Okay, so I thought I&#x27;d be able to use this as a web app and mobile app. Wrong, and I think that&#x27;s a mistake. For large purchase decisions I generally use my computer rather than my phone.<p>I was interested, though, so I downloaded the app. The only option is to use Facebook to login. They say they&#x27;ve done this in order to cut down on the time it takes to launch the site, and will add an alternative later. Unfortunately that&#x27;s not good enough for me, and I won&#x27;t be using Facebook to login.<p>It seems really odd to lock the app behind a login anyway. Why not open it up and ALLOW (not force) people to log in? If you&#x27;re trying to attract customers, let them use it! Don&#x27;t require them to download an app and create a login before they even know if it&#x27;s worth it.<p>Zillow does this well. You can use the search and see the value of the site right away, but you don&#x27;t have to log in unless you want to start favoriting homes and saving searches. These features are useful and it makes sense to me. This just seems like poor planning for launch.

I don&#x27;t understand, why is this an app and not a website? Also has some interesting reviews with it&#x27;s 2 stars average on Google Play. Users seem to not like the fact that it requires facebook login, it&#x27;s laggy and doesn&#x27;t have a great UI. Personally haven&#x27;t tried.

Whenever I see tools like this, I have to point out Flightfox - <a href="http://www.flightfox.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.flightfox.com</a>. If you&#x27;re thinking of booking a trip that could run on the expensive side, there&#x27;s no doubt in my mind that experts will do better than any single tool out there (or yourself) ever could... you&#x27;ll pay a small fee to run a contest, but you&#x27;ll still likely absorb that cost in savings.<p>Do yourself a favor and run a contest. Even better, spend some time trying to find the lowest price you can, then pay the $40+ to watch a few experts demolish your travel-planning skills.<p>Often times they&#x27;ll find miles hacking &#x2F; loopholes &#x2F; etc. that only a human could put together. The various experts behind that site are <i>ridiculously</i> good at getting you deals. The more complex and &quot;open&quot; your trip, the more space they have to save you money.

FYI the app requires Facebook account.<p>from the app: &quot;Q: Why is Facebook required?&quot; &quot;A: We haven&#x27;t had time to build an alternative yet&quot;

I just don&#x27;t get it. I have an upcoming vacation, where we are generally going to Spain&#x2F;Portugal, but don&#x27;t care what city we start in, and our dates are flexible. I thought this app might be useful for this case. So I plug in Lisbon, Barcelona, Madrid, Seville, etc. And my Flights section just says &quot;No Deals&quot; still. How do I get flights to show up? I&#x27;m pretty sure there are a few flights to Europe from NYC.<p>(Also, you probably should take New Haven Tweed airport out of the list when it&#x27;s finding closest airports. Because that airport is no one&#x27;s homebase, given it only flies to Philadelphia.)

If you&#x27;re flexible, try Nowcation (<a href="http://nowcation.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nowcation.com&#x2F;</a>) built by a team of students out of UMich or take a look at Kayak Explore (<a href="http://www.kayak.com/explore" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.kayak.com&#x2F;explore</a>). The only downside is that it doesn&#x27;t learn your preferences over time which will help Hitlist find more esoteric destinations that you might not have normally considered.<p>Maybe if they integrate Rome2Rio&#x27;s API,they can offer more options since you can combine airfare + local transit costs to even more destinations.

Umm Farecast? <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2008/04/17/microsoft-acquires-farecast-for-115m/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;techcrunch.com&#x2F;2008&#x2F;04&#x2F;17&#x2F;microsoft-acquires-farecast...</a>

The idea sounds good. I always thought why most travel&#x2F;ticket sites don&#x27;t have a feature like that (the search <i>always</i> assumes you have set date to leave and return, there&#x27;s no way to search, e.g., &quot;all flights for the next 10 days, sorted by price&quot;).

Hypothetically speaking, if everyone that flies used this and only bought tickets when it told them the prices were low, wouldn&#x27;t that eventually swap the prices of tickets since those prices fluctuate based on popularity?<p>And then even further after that people would continue to only buy tickets at the swapped low prices and at the end of the line prices would all even out at all times.

Expedia and just about everybody else has a &quot;flexible dates&quot; option which will let you do this already.<p>This isn&#x27;t new by any stretch, the old as dirt <a href="http://www.airfarewatchdog.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.airfarewatchdog.com&#x2F;</a> will tell you the cheapest days in the coming months for flights.

How is this better than Google flights? (Which shows you a calendar where each day&#x27;s box has in it the cheapest fare for that day.)