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Comment by WildGreenLeave | Hacker News Reader

https://twinflights.com

I love to travel and often times I have to go to somewhere. This search allows me to plan additional stops in between my origin and destination. As an example, if I want to fly from Amsterdam to New York you can take a direct flight, or add a stop somewhere and add that destination as another stop. So maybe you could visit London for a few days, or Washington or maybe Bermuda.

Another one I am working on is https://startenv.com, this one will automatically convert your docker compose file to a test/staging environment whenever you create a PR or for specific branches. This way your QA or clients can give feedback for a specific feature before you release it. I've been using it for a few weeks and I am really liking it (but of course I am biased).

While TwinFlights is a side project I am hoping to turn StartEnv into a proper B2B SaaS. If you think this could fit your business, please reach out to me and I'll do my best to make it worth your time. :)

twinflights is something I could use. Is it possible to select number of stop overs on each direction? e.g. often I like to wander on way out from home. But then on way back I just want to get home ASAP.

In terms of the UX, a table view is a bit daunting while I'm starting with an exploration mindset, perhaps start the user with a map instead?

Also FYI, I randomly clicked on Book a flight. It led me to Kiwi but the price went up from 158 to 198. I tried a few other buttons and the price stayed the same.

Thanks for sharing this, looking forward to see where you take it.

Thank you for your reply!

> twinflights is something I could use. Is it possible to select number of stop overs on each direction? e.g. often I like to wander on way out from home. But then on way back I just want to get home ASAP.

This is something I've been working on because often times I also want this. The first step was adding one-way flights, the next step is making this configurable!

> In terms of the UX, a table view is a bit daunting while I'm starting with an exploration mindset, perhaps start the user with a map instead?

The 'table' view is the search result correct? Adding a map would actually sound very nice. It would give you the perfect overview of all of your options including price.

> Also FYI, I randomly clicked on Book a flight. It led me to Kiwi but the price went up from 158 to 198. I tried a few other buttons and the price stayed the same.

I am building this on top of Tequila (the Kiwi API) and their rate limit is quite generous, but still not enough to do real time searches. Every day I am scraping all flights put them into a database (MySQL and Neo4J) so that I can search for the cheapest alternative flights given between point A and B. Because of this the prices might sometimes be a bit outdated, but that also works both ways. I am working on trying to optimise this though.

I appreciate your comments, thank you very much!

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