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Originally Posted by indes
It started as just a concept about 6 months ago and then I spent a bit of time over 3 months doing research on everything since I had 0 knowledge of websites, tech startups, APIs or anything like that. Then I made a react app prototype in Gemini as a proof of concept which took some moderate time over a few months. After that I actually tried to get several people/companies to build my site but they either couldn't grasp my vision or said it was too complicated. I actually used a lot of AI's to figure out where to go next to get myself from a locally made react app to a node.js app. Once I had a bit of a roadmap I spent a couple months evenings and weekends trying to get it up and running.
I thought it would be quicker but even once I had the data filtering and searches working I had to figure out how to make the UI user friendly, get it to look good on mobile, create algorithms to accurately estimate ticket and flight prices (this was actually pretty cool, but challenging). I'm still working on the pSEO, blogs and creating a social media presence. Bugs like not having Halifax in the flight list!
TLDR: 6 months from idea to launch
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Silly question, but... why did you want to make this concept a reality? You had a bunch of "no" and a longish duration. Do you do that type of travel enough that it'd save you and buddies a lot of time + have interest in just making things a hobby with the ability to ultimately attempt to monetize it as a pure bonus on top?
A few years ago, I had an idea. As far as I know no one else has done it. I spoke with a few programmers/engineers and no one wanted to be involved in the concept, so I just shrugged and put it away. I'd still be wary about building it with AI and gifting the concept away, but it might be a tool to set up a proof of concept to explain the concept to an engineer/programmer.