Show HN: Whentofly – flexible-date flight search that says if the price is good
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3 days ago
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Hi there! My name is Dima, that's my first post here. Originally I'm an iOS Engineer for 6+ years but now I'm diving deep into AI, product building and everything around it.

Here I want to present my first product which I built for two months - as usual for tech background guy I was trying to make it perfect but then decided to start distributing it along future improvements, anyway

I got an idea when were discussing another travel idea with my personal agent - it can suggest where to fly, what are places to visit and etc but can't find the best windows to fly there, and nobody can - every time you need to open Google Flights, Kayak and search each date, then watch it and try to figure out is it a good price or not, should you wait 2 days or buy it right now? And each website provides different rates... Using API even not free

So I build this one. Under the hood we put fares from different sources, aggregators, cross-checked against live market prices. The verdict compares the price with other prices across different bands, cabins, similar flights. This is the very first version but already useful and showing the real verdict info: good (lower regular range) and typical (inside of regular range) price

I made it very simple so there is only one endpoint with all parameters - just paste the website to your agent and it already knows how to use it, and we have an MCP here which allows you to connect it and use whenever you need it automatically

Honestly you may see sometimes stale prices and indicators work for 2-7 days ranges. But these things will get dramatically improved after reaching more DAU milestones. The service is going to be free all the time because its affiliate links have to fund it, so you pay nothing extra - the same as you would use Google Flights and anything else

So the main goal which I should achieve is to make this service providing the best ever offer you can find on the market with enough evidence for you to speed up your decision about buying it. And then allow your agents to buy it directly, alerts or something, let's see how agents will get improved

What I like here that agents already handle the logic: they can do trip planning, they can build apps, but what they can't do - they don't have instant statistics about flights - price history, timing, they don't know what's good price and what's not - and we do it right here. Agents solve logic, we solve statistics.

And I'd very appreciate if you try a route for your upcoming trip and that you just remember prices. If the result is worse than you can find, tell me details here please - I'll fix it asap when possible

OVERROUND
3 days ago
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I've seen a lot of sites try to get this right over the years. Seems like the modern AI's natural language processing ability could be the thing that actually makes this tech work the way people think it should.
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dimabalony
2 days ago
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Yes! And what I like in this idea that agent solves it whatever way you want - it just needs statistics - you can have your skills for trip planning, even the whole workflow but with statistics service it work as expected

Have you tried already to search something? I'd very appreciate if you give it an attempt

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