hrush

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by hrush 13y ago
Yes.
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by hrush 13y ago
You can find the details of the front end architecture in one of our older blog posts: http://blog.cleartrip.com/2012/04/10/cleartrip-account-gets-...
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by hrush 13y ago
So, it doesn't deserve to be on the front page of Hacker News because it's Indian?
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by hrush 14y ago
I couldn't agree more about Google sticking up for what's best for Google. And while I don't agree that we need more government regulation and intervention, we do need to call Google on their BS. It gets even funnier if you read between the
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by hrush 14y ago
@nerd_in_rage -- we originally started with purely text as an approach. You can see one of our older blog posts here where we talk about the simplicity and clarity afforded by "Just use text": http://blog.cleartrip.com/2007/03/10/a-picture
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by hrush 14y ago
We hadn't thought of releasing the icon, but we're quite happy to do that for the community to use. We'll try and do that shortly.
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by hrush 14y ago
Our thoughts exactly -- it's not an icon that has any inherent meaning, which we thought made it too vague for usage without a text label.
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by hrush 14y ago
MaxGabriel -- this is a bit of a subjective choice. We chose to go with the "bed" approach over the "building(s)" approach for two reasons: 1. We think the extensive usage of the original bed icon in wayfinding signage around the world make
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by hrush 14y ago
We hope that it's a clearer bed than what we originally started with. With respect to seeing it from afar -- the contexts in which we are using the icon is for desktop and post-PC device user interfaces. Interfaces which aren't usually used
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by hrush 15y ago
Thanks! We're glad we were able to roll out an elegant solution and all the feedback on Hacker News was definitely a huge help...
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by hrush 15y ago
We've redesigned the feature now and it is now live in production. Details of the design changes: http://bit.ly/y3uvv0
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by hrush 15y ago
We've pushed out some fixes to the design -- thank you, for your feedback, it was quite helpful in helping us think through the redesign. http://bit.ly/y3uvv0
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by hrush 15y ago
Great suggestions, thanks a ton for taking the time. We'll be making some changes to it very soon and we'll post details once the changes are live.
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by hrush 15y ago
To be perfectly honest, we didn't test for differently worded labels at all. So, we'd be outright lying if we said what you're asking us to. We agree that we need to work on improving the design of the feature and we will be doing just that
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by hrush 15y ago
Yep. We agree that we need to work on improving the design of the feature and we will be doing just that. “X seats left at this price” is a better label, but may be too long to fit for the way it is currently designed, so we will need to th
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by hrush 15y ago
We only launched this feature last week, so it's hard to say whether it's a "one-off" case.
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by hrush 15y ago
We've posted a more detailed explanation with screenshots and examples here: http://bit.ly/yP3muv
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by hrush 15y ago
Udo -- the practice of ramping prices up and down is called Yield Management and is a commonplace strategy for suppliers of perishable inventory such as airlines and hotels. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management We wanted to our u
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by hrush 15y ago
Hi, My name is Hrush. I am one of Cleartrip's founders and I'd like to clarify how things actually work. Firstly, the "X seats left" feature is not an 'algorithm' at all. It is a simple count of the number of 'seats remaining' at a specific