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Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

128 pointsby themagyar2 tahun yang lalu85 comments

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Recommend using service like clerk to make signup/in easy. (https://clerk.com/pricing). Free for first 10k users.

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No, never got email. Auto-marking words makes more sense.

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This is a great, and b/c pulling from podcasts, can handle hard languages (eg. Hungarian). Smart. Some thoughts:

- Buttons to click thru examples for words, waiting is slow

- Partial load of podcast screen (for speed)

- Playback controls for podcasts would be nice (skip, ff, 1.5x)

- Define word in hover would probably be faster/more seamless + pronunciation

- Search bar for known words + alphabetical.. (OR if heard N times -> known)

Also, get the avoidance of gamification, but would like some sort of progress tracking (mins listened, lexicon, % of top 1k frequency). Will play some more when signups work.

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BonBook optimizes for efficiency. What's your use case?

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Maybe; BonBook never will.

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Appreciate the context. That's the plan, cheers.

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Logs look clear.. what are you searching for?

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Beta turns booking into two clicks.

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Beta (and sim) intentionally does not search them.

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The sim has limited ability to make it lightweight, free from signup and responsive in ~15 seconds.

Beta is much more capable.

GFlights is not used, link is there for comparison.

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Depends on the detail. There are a few simple ones (eg flightlab).

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Yes, this is a bit more complicated but on the roadmap. Great suggestion.

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Yes, the internet did in fact drop the ball. Fix is live.

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We had a bug with one of our external provides earier this morning, but its now resolved.

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The beta is email-based booking, changes and more. The demo simulates the search experience via email.

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Checkout link in beta provides details. But you can request both :)

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UPDATE: We're back!

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Hi HN: Looks like LLM API calls started being rejected. Working on a solution...

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Can't handle multi-date (yet).

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Noted re the EU. Though there's another side to it as well.

BonBook does more than just booking (eg. one-email changes) and many budget airlines make this difficult with their restrictive fare rules.