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robbya
All the examples include a flight, is there support for local driving trips? Driving an hour is faster/cheaper than plane fare.
gusgordon
Not currently — this is just for flight and hotel combinations. Good idea though, I want to add that along with train and boat trips.
kipukun
You know, I really like this idea. It's simple, straight-forward, the website loads, and its demographic is mostly everyone. Good stuff. One qualm is that two scrollbars show up, probably from some overflow: scroll stuff. Would consider looking at that.
gusgordon
Thank you! I’ll take a look at the scroll bar issue.
pricci
Nice. How do you decide if a trip is "cheap"? Do you track an average or have a threshold?
gusgordon
That’s right, it uses the 90-day average price of flight + hotel. I take the z-score relative to that and filter for trips with lower z-scores.
TurkishPoptart
Nice work. I'm curious about how you built this.
gusgordon
Thank you. The front end is hosted with Netlify and the back end uses Chalice: https://github.com/aws/chalice It also uses Chrome Puppeteer for scraping.

Chalice is super awesome. I'm planning to write a blog post on the tech.

akudha
not your parent comment, but I think they mean how you get the data, not the tech stack
6510
Wait.... this is the kind of thing we hoped future technology would do in the 80's.... Well done!
Cognitron
Does it include nearby airports? I have two airports nearby that each have better deals depending on where you're going.
gusgordon
Yeah, it uses all airports within 40 miles of your location (or your closest airport).
scriptstar
Nice one. Congratulations. Which newsletter provider are you using?
gusgordon
Thanks - just using Amazon SES to send the emails.