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Discussion on: My girlfriend likes to travel, I like to know how much it's gonna cost. Vue, node and some APIs later, I give you tripcoster.com

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Cécile Lebleu

Really nice!
I’m on mobile right now so I’ll test it later.
I would like to suggest though something I’ve always wanted to see, which is a visual graph of the cost of traveling somewhere over time. Is it more expensive to travel in May, or in September, or December? In my case, I can literally pick up my things and go at any time, so it would be cool to know if I wait a few weeks it would cost 20% less, for example.
Not sure how it would work though, and it might need a LOT of data... 🤔

I don’t know, just an idea :)

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Davs Howard

There's an app called Hopper that shows this. Might be worth checking out :-)

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Robin Kretzschmar

Yes this is a feature I also would want to see on such a site!

This helps a lot to decide when it would be best to travel to a certain destination.
Also if I set a budget and want to know when I get the best out of it.

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RM

Google flights has a feature like this, once you typed in your dates and destinations a price graph option shows up that shows you month by month how flight prices change.

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Eze Rodriguez

This would be really cool, I was also thinking of doing it but the problem I see is that the price also varies depending when you're making the search. i.e in some airlines is not the same look for a flight on May to flight on September than look for it on July.