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Tomo Cheap Flights — Save up to 70% on flights around the world ✈️
Tomo is a Facebook Messenger bot specialized in getting cheap flights. You can save up to $700 per ticket and it's as simple as a conversation with a friend.
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Maker
@vladimiroane Thanks 🙏 for the question Vladimir. No affiliate links in this. Our only incentive is to find great deals for you. About how we make money, we are testing some premium services, but first we want to make sure we are providing value for our users.
I've been playing with Tomo for a while now and I love the experience! Although there are many services offering the cheapest flights (as @bentossell also noted), I enjoy Tomo more because of its friendly chat feeling. It's like I have a buddy who's doing his best to help me travel cheaper and learn more about new places - the tips & info on destinations make it even more fun.
@vladstan & @aluxian, one question for you: how do you source the deals? Also, it would be nice to be able to have a wishlist ❤️
@andreeamih Thanks for the kind words, we're so happy when our users are happy!
For sourcing deals we have 3 flight hackers helping us (America, Europe, Asia+Oceania), but we also have automated processes to scan lots of other websites as well. Right now we're partly manual because we want to understand our users' behaviour and what the best way to find deals is.
We've been reading about hacking flights for the past few weeks and soon we'll be ready to automate most of it. AI will play an important role as we plan to not only customize the service to our users' preferences but also learn what they like so we can send the best deals.
Maker
@andreeamih Thank you. And thank you for the awesome feedback you gave us. Keep it coming. <3
@aluxian @andreeamih so do you give these sites any credit for the work they put in?
Maker
@_jpcastrog_ Hello Juan, great question. Yes, we plan to use AI to learn and predict what kind of offers we should send to the users and of course to understand when the deal is a real deal.
Nice work. How do you know if you're getting the best deal on Tomo relative to other deals on the market?
@dankurani Thanks! Two ways:
Obvious: these are the easiest to spot, when we see something like Oslo -> Shanghai for $300 return we instantly know it's a sweet one.
Data-backed: we compare the price with the average and this helps us spot deals. We also have a threshold so we don't send too many deals, we only want to send the best (for instance, when we can help you save 20%–70%)
Hi the bot asked me to ask questions here. My home city is Chicago but my first deal was out of Orlando. I selected extended range but I assumed that was nearby e.g. midway, Milwaukee etc.
Signed up! Good luck guys! I get another service via email for trip deals so it'll be neat to compare.
Maker
@scottloader Thanks, Scott. If you have any feedback please get in touch with us directly. I'd love to know your thought about this.
I think is a great idea. Personalisation is the future of travel!
Also I think the chatbot and chatting systems are very good in terms of UX: people knows already how to use messenger and they feel more confortable to book on a platform like facebook instead moving to new websites.
So many services offer to find the cheapest flights
Why is this better than the rest?
Maker
@bentossell Hello Ben, probably the main difference is the medium. You'll get them on FB Messenger on real time. Also, because we have more info about the users than a normal service, we aim to personalize the offers and offer a much better experience for the users.
@vladstan @bentossell Yep! The main selling point (besides saving money) is personalization.
We're working on understanding our users' patterns so we can provide several other features: say we find a deal from London to New York but you're in Edinburgh, we'll also find you a flight to London; or say you want to receive only during a specific time period, or for a continent you're interested in, or under a certain budget, etc, we can customize all of this. We're working on these features.
Also, additionally to having our 3 deal hunters, we also check other sources to make sure we don't miss anything!
I think this is really cool. However, would be great if I can up front set alerts for a specific route. I also don't want to connect with Messenger considering I get a ridiculous amount of messages from friends and bots all day that another bot to add to the list would drive me nuts. Maybe email alert can be a different way to opt in?
Maker
@prokotasic Thanks for the feedback Luka. We're going to add this feature soon. Working on it. About the email stuff, not sure. But we plan to develop this for other chat platforms. Maybe you will find one wich is not so often used by your friends.
Thanks @kwdinc for the hunt! We're thrilled to be on Product Hunt :)
We love to travel, but what's even better is when we hack the airfare prices for our flights. This is the reason we built Tomo, a Facebook Messenger bot with only one job: to find cheap flights for your next trip.
Tomo searches 24/7, all the airlines. We named it Tomo because in Japanese, “tomo” means “long time friend”, and that’s the spirit of the project. Tomo is your travel mate, always searching the best price for you.
Don't hesitate to ask us anything!
I love to travel, I actually did a world tour for about 5 years by hitchhiking. Now that I'm married, I have to skip the hitchhiking part but still have to travel with my wife. So I subscribed to different websites to receive emails with great flight deals. But, within a few days of subscribing, I unsubscribed from all those emails. Who likes an overwhelming inbox, right? However, when it comes to Facebook notifications about flight deals, I don't mind it. It feels like a buddy telling you about a deal he found online. I had the chance to play with this bot for a week or so and I have to say, I love it. Vlad, Alex, I believe you're onto something good here.
Maker
@pavelciobanu Hi Pavel, and thanks for the feedback. We've built the product having people like you in mind. So this means a lot to us. Stai close we have many improvements on the pipeline.
Maker
@mrabramowitz In the menu under help you have few more options, like change location and region.
Maker
@andrei512 Hi Andrei, thanks for the question. It depends of course on the location and your flexibility. But I can say it's between 1-2 months up to 1-2 per day. But we are searching for a solution to give you more power on this.
@andrei512 Hi Andrei, this depends on your location.
Here's an example: I set my account to receive deals from Europe (extended) and in the last week I got 6. It's similar for America. Also if you set to receive deals "only in your location" instead of "extended" (in the bot) you'll get far fewer (but possibly more relevant to you) deals. Cheers!
Hey Vlad, I see it and I like it. Right from StarterKit days ... your relative absence around meant that something was brewing. :) And it is so good. How is life otherwise?
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