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Hitlist 3.0 — Plan, share, and book trips with friends
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Finally, a way to share trips with friends before I actually know the full details. It's the future, literally.
@tomlimongello ha nice one. I'm really enjoying your trip names, even if I'm not going to be holding in knee socks anytime soon...
@gillianim they were too hot for August in Bermuda but they make for surprisingly good late night work attire when you forget how long you've been staring at the screen.
@gillianim Collaborative vacay, I think you are onto something really interesting. This is easily the largest pain point even hypothetically considering a trip!
... and just found out that we're featured as a Best New App in the App Store this week. It must have been Product Hunt that won them over :) Thanks again @chrismessina for hunting
This is an awesome idea. But taking advantage of the idea that friends can see your travels, it would be amazing if they could suggest places to go if they have travelled there before. Nice work!
@rutgerteunissen we try and make it easy to figure out where friends have been by going to their profiles and browsing... But there's a lot we could do to make the more intuitive and to make it easier to invite. We'll keep working on it with 3.1...
Hitlist has always been so great for two reasons.
1. To find fantastic last-minute trips and go travel
2. To have the Instagram-like endless scroll strategy to get excited about traveling
Keep killing it, @gillianim!
Congratulations, @gillianim! It's *great* to see the kind of engagement and conversion numbers you're sending along... that sounds like a serious metric that you're on to something. :) Great to see Hitlist execute!
It's been exciting to watch the evolution of this app as @gillianim continues to execute on one of the better travel apps out there (and it's both a complex and competitive space).
Thanks @chrismessina. We're sick of seeing apps that offer you 'cheap flights to Vegas' and thought there could be a better way to plan travel. Hitlist helps you find places that excite you, follow friends that inspire you, and scan the best prices for all the types of trips that might interest you. v3 is the culmination of four months' direct work but also five years of learnings in this industry.
I planned trips to places I never would have gone and have also saved a ton on last minute bi-coastal trips! Love hitlist!
@kellypeeler happy to hear it's been working out well for you :) I still can't believe how cheap it is to get to Scandanavia right now... these $300 round trip weekend fares to Oslo are tempting to even my broke startup founder budget.
Awesome product that drives you curated, discounted products. The UX is gorgeous and awesome - one of the best ways to buy flights via your phone.
Great update @gillianim! Hitlist is perfect for finding cheap flights when your travel dates are a bit flexible, and great to get inspired on where to go. I'm using it over Skyscanner these days.
I like the idea. Not in love with the name which people from my generation have two very different meanings of the word hit (one the mob type, and the other, well, you know).
@delwilliams names are hard. I know ours is *somewhat* edgy but it's also quite sticky - I'll be in conversations with people where they start referring to their 'hitlist' for everything from bars to investors to pitch. Maybe when we're big enough people won't think of anything negative when they hear Hitlist but instead think of this awesome app that helps them achieve their travel dreams!
I fly a lot, but I'm not rich. Why is it so difficult to find cheap flights and why does it seem like airlines don't apply any logic to their fares at all? Hitlist has already saved me many hours of checking airfares online. I get notified whenever an interesting fare comes up for a destination that's on my wishlist. Hitlist works better for me than Hopper.
Pros:Time, money & stress saver
Cons:Addictive - makes me want to travel even more
@elbahnasy to put this into numbers - the head of product at Tripadvisor said that when people connected Facebook to Tripadvisor, conversions increased 27%. So it's not just you and me but a substantial number of users of the biggest travel site in the world that get travel inspiration from friends.
Congrats on the update @gillianim! Your team is putting together great products. Always excited to see what you guys do next! (ps. Checkout Wandertab if you haven't already from the team @Hitlist)
Carpool VC - S2E3, Prerna Gupta, Founder/CEO of Hooked