| > Thanks! Really appreciate it! Yeah eventually we'd like to provide a writeup of the data and algorithm that is accessible - something like: https://algorithms-tour.stitchfix.com/ Whoa never saw that before, fancy as. Yeah, I feel that a nice writeup would lend credibility to your algos. > Did you find the scoring and guided experience helpful or would you rather just a big list of criteria you can filter from? We played around with the former but think the latter may actually be more appealing to more people. That way compatibility is binary, either it matches your criteria or not. You see this is where it gets tricky. The people that hang around HN tend to be more technical and likely used to more convoluted UIs that allow them to be efficient and flexible. At the same time your market is likely to be less techie so I fear that my opinion may be biased and even harmful. That being said I supposed having a clean and simple default with an advanced alternative a click away would satisfy both crowds though the latter can wait post-launch so you can see what the feedback is like. As a quick note I think even the simple version would benefit from 'justification' behind the recommendation, i.e., we suggested Hawaii because while expensive it has top-notch surfing (assuming they selected that), is safe, LGBTQ-friendly, etc. Even if you skip the numbers you make it easy for people to compromise on things and rethink their choices before trying again. Otherwise I feel it'd become an arduous trial-n-error for people to get the confirmation bias they're looking for :P. > Rome2Rio are definitely a company we'd like to learn from and partner with. There's a surprising amount of aussie travel startups (adioso, wotif etc) that have done well. Lol something about living thousands of miles away from most destinations motivates that sort of startup I suppose :D. |
Yes definitely. Actually we're slightly worried that we've got too much of an australian centric view on travel. Everything is 12 hours away so we end up only planning big trips instead of many small ones. That said nearby places are often overlooked. Cook Islands and Dili have been appearing quite a few times recently.
> As a quick note I think even the simple version would benefit from 'justification' behind the recommendation
Yes, 100%. The results page has a legend of sorts and it shows red when criteria is not compatible (after you select the destination card).
Dynamic text has been a bit challenging for us. We will revisit it again soon because I agree, people benefit from the explanation. However we want to avoid a scenario where the dynamic text for Results 1-5 are identical (or effectively identical if we just replace words with their synonyms)