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Duffel
Company blog · duffel.com/blog · on HN as stevedominprogrammingbusiness
Duffel is the company blog at duffel.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2018, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “During a pandemic, we’re not all affected equally”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked mostly for its airline-industry posts, such as falsehoods about airline seat maps and a piece on technology that changed air travel. Many other mentions link to the Duffel company or its API.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Any business – from travel startups to financial enterprises - can build with Duffel to search and book flights, stays, add ancillaries, charge customers, manage orders and more.
Most-linked posts?
- /3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2018-11-01
- During a pandemic, we’re not all affected equally2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-10-12
- Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – The fastest way to sell flights2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-02-16
- What happens when I search for flights2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-10
- /blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-11-09
What Hacker News says?
I like what Duffel is doing as far as creating a nice, consistent airline booking API goes: https://duffel.com/ Maybe some carriers should integrate with Duffel and build their apps on top of the Duffel API instead of shipping all the logic off to accenture or whatever
Comment linking /
on “I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app”Submitted Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – Everything you need to sell accommodation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDuffel | Software Engineers | London, UK / São Paulo, BR | Full-time, on-site | https://duffel.com We are a stealth startup working to build the next generation of software for the travel industry. You will join a small (but growing) team, work alongside talented and incredibly ambitious people (but who really know how to enjoy their time off), and have the unique opportunity to shape our core platform and tackle so…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Submitted What happens when I search for flights as a story · 5 points
HN discussionDuffel | Software Engineers | London, UK / São Paulo, BR | Full-time, on-site | https://duffel.com Duffel is building the next generation of software for the travel industry. You will join a small (but growing) team, work alongside talented and incredibly ambitious people (but who really know how to enjoy their time off), and have the unique opportunity to shape our core platform and tackle some of the most interest…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2018)”Submitted Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aircraft Seat Maps as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDuffel | Software Engineers | London, UK / São Paulo, BR | Full-time, on-site | https://duffel.com Duffel is building the next generation of software for the travel industry. You will join a small and experienced team, work alongside people who love their craft (coding!), and tackle some of the most interesting challenges in travel today. Product & Engineering is at the core of our company. We are looking for people…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2019)”Submitted During a pandemic, we’re not all affected equally as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis is an awesome post - nice work! It does a fantastic job of laying out clearly the incredible complexity that underpins travel (which totally shocked me when I started in the industry). I'm Tim, and I lead airline partnerships at [Duffel][1] (YC S18) - although I'm an engineer by trade ;) We're building a new API platform to make it easy for anyone to sell flights (think "Stripe for travel"). We make integration…
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on “Technology that changed air travel”Submitted During a pandemic, we're not all affected equally as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIs there an easy way to display a diff which shows all the new links since the last time this was on HN? (Sept. 8th, 2020) Partial list: Falsehoods about Airline Seat Maps https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps Falsehoods about Biometrics https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/falsehoods-programmers-beli... Falsehoods about Plain Text https://jeremyhussell.blogspot.com/2017/11/falsehoods-progra...
Comment linking /blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps
on “A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe”Submitted What happens when you search for flights? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionhttps://duffel.com there are APIs to accomplish this FWIW, this isn't functionality path LLM/MCPs magically unlocked.
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on “Kiwi.com flight search MCP server”Submitted Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – The fastest way to sell flights as a story · 2 points
HN discussion>> Just monitor it and you’re done. This is just anecdote, colliding with documented database behavior, who is not an issue on Oracle, SQL Server, or IBM DB2. PostgreSQL explicitly documents xid wraparound as a failure mode that can lead to catastrophic data loss and says vacuuming is required to prevent it. Near exhaustion, it will refuse commands. Small sample of known outages: - Sentry — Transaction ID Wraparound…
Comment linking /blog/understanding-outage-concurrency-vacuum-postgresql
on “PostgreSQL production incident caused by transaction ID wraparound”Submitted How we fixed a client library bottleneck with Elixir concurrency as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCorrect link: https://duffel.com/blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps
Comment linking /blog/falsehoods-about-seat-maps
on “Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aircraft Seat Maps”Submitted What happens when I book a flight? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI've been using Elixir with Phoenix and Liveview at my job for the past three months as part of a small team building a non-trivial web app ( https://duffel.com/links ). I'm mostly a front-end developer and was brought in to handle the UX side. Prior to this project I've spent the last 5+ years in the React world. I found a lot of what the author says to be true. I'm used to the nightmare that is managing front-end…
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on “Elixir for Humans Who Know Python”Thank you for the feedback. The point on not knowing whether you're in the target market or not is absolutely valid and something we should make a lot clearer on that page. Re: pricing: our main product is our Flights API ( https://duffel.com/flights ). Links is a new product we're launching today that lets you sell flights without having to write an integration with our API. You can access our API on our free plan…
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on “Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – The fastest way to sell flights”It's unclear to me from the Duffel page which scenario happens. https://duffel.com/flights/airlines seems to indicate some airlines have a direct connection, but the vast majority go through something called Travelport. If I ask the airline to cancel my booking, what happens? Do they do so? Does the Duffel markup come back to me? Do I get status benefits from the airline?
Comment linking /flights/airlines
on “Show HN: Duffel (YC S18) – The fastest way to sell flights”