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Comment by aaronblohowiak | Hacker News Reader

i dont know.. this is interesting for me, but it would be profoundly more useful with my (admittedly small) group of friends.

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why more useful for your friends?

I think he means it would be useful when used for a geographically distributed group. You could find the cheapest place for a reunion based on total cost of airfares, and split the cost evenly.

noodle, this is a great idea, don't give this up just because there's another competitor in town.

Please ping me if you are interested in pursuing this further. I can link you up to startup that could definitely make use of this to compliment their trip planning service.

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i suppose the issue i was trying to convey is that i wasn't giving up, i was never aware that i had something to give up on. never thought of the thing as a useful tool for me and a few others, since everyone i showed it to thought it was neat, but i was the only one who ever actually used it.

Sure, just so long as it doesn't tell us all to vacation in Frankfurt airport;)

To put it another way: The results for this kind of query are often going to be the big travel hubs. These may not always be the kind of destination that your users want.

neat idea, anyway.

Once you have the basics in place, adding a filter to say you only want to go a place with nice beaches or close to ski slopes or whatever should be fairly trivial. And anyway I'm sure my friends and I could have an awesome vacation in Frankfurt.

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