My third invention: a free flight deals email service 🛫
It’s like Scott’s Cheap Flights except you choose destinations, you can save way more filters, and you don’t need specific dates.
Also, it shows a chart of price trends for your search with all the filters included.
Try it out for free! (link in comments)
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More details in case you’re curious:
– You don’t need to search specific dates. You can choose something like: 10-15 day trip to London sometime btwn June and September
– You can search over a rolling year of flights
– Avoid getting alerts for annoying 5 AM flights you wouldn’t take
– Other services show avg prices without including any parameters. You get to see a chart of price trends for your search with all the related parameters.
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An example of parameters:
– Round trip: SFO,SJC,OAK <-> LHR,FRA,BER
– Anytime within 2023-03-11 to 2024-02-28
– With the nights in destination ranging from 6 to 16
– Depart on a: Thursday or Friday
– Departure time from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
– Arrival time from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM
– Return departure time from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM
– Return arrival time from 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM
Also available: airline, # of layovers, price cap
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If you’ve been following me for a while, you’ll know that a friend and I created a flight deals iPhone app that launched a few weeks after the pandemic started (yes, we did not foresee that in our planning lol). We eventually had to shut it down because of cost and flight API issues.
Thankfully, an email service is very affordable to run, and I’m using a new flight API!
This is the final hobby project I’ve created during my two weeks off before starting the new job. Won’t have much time for them soon, but they’ve been energizing to work on 🤓