About a Show HN service that books and changes flights by email.
Has this happened?
Yes 44 (39%)Not sure 34 (30%)No 34 (30%)
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
Hacker News has set AI a lot of challenges over the years. Which ones has it met?
About a Show HN service that books and changes flights by email.
Votes cast 1–2 October 2026: 100,590 votes from 9,694 people.
I imagine this is a much harder problem than meets the eye. Even for my own travel, there are like a dozen things I'm trying to optimize for. Time, money, seat, travel to/from airport (traffic, train cost, taxi pickup/dropoff ease), lounge quality, layover length or complexity vs cost calculus, loyalty program, airport navigation, airport amenities, flight hospitality quality etc. etc.
When an AI can take into account all these subtleties and work reliably then yeh, I'd give it a go. But for now I'm kinda ~ok with the time cost of finding a non-rubbish flight.
I guess this is where 'travel agents' once used to shine.
Also: I want to be _absolutely_ certain the flight was booked -- that nothing was dropped, that no weird API failed to callback, that no letter was dropped from my name, that no silly email parser thought I meant London, Ontario, Canada.
Ps. Cool demo!