Hi everyone, CEO of Trippeo here. We just released our flight booking portal this morning where you can book flights (and track expenses) with Trippeo. We don't re-direct you to a 3rd party booking site - you search and booking directly with Trippeo. We have secured some pretty decent rates for North American flights and I welcome you to give it a try. You'll have to sign in to Trippeo to view the flight portal.
At 2M DAU, there's a lot of upside in building a bot for that audience. We just launched a simple expense management slack bot last week and in the past few days, our engagement has gone up... will post some numbers shortly. https://medium.com/trippeo-blog/introducing-expense-manageme...
Hmm thanks for that. Are you by any chance on a chromebook using Chrome? We noticed this issue with chromebooks... but for Macs and Windows using chrome, it seems to be fine (at least from our tests). Can you shoot me an email at adarsh[at]trippeo?
I just emailed a developer evangelist at Microsoft - tons of them around and more than willing to help startups, especially new ones with under $1M in funding.
Just FYI - the $60k/year Azure offer is technically available for any startup just willing to ask nicely (not limited to just incubators). My company, http://trippeo.com just qualified for it last month (we get $5k/mo free hosting).
"In Green Bank, you can’t make a call on your cell phone, and you can’t text on it, either. Wireless internet is outlawed, as is Bluetooth. It’s a premodern place by design, devoid of the gadgets and technologies that define life today. And thanks to Uncle Sam, it will stay that way: The town is part of a federally mandated zone where a government high-tech facility’s needs come first. Wireless signals are verboten."
"I think the Indian education system as a whole is greatly flawed in that it does not urge students to think, but rather to memorize, or ‘mugging' as they say in India" - sadly, that one sentence pretty much sums up the Indian higher education system (from a guy who "mugged" his way to grade 12 before coming to North America and having to learn to think).
Hey Tom - have you checked out Vayant? I've been playing with their API for my upcoming travel startup and it's been really good. Results in less than a second for most of Europe and Asia.