While Adioso looks good and started off with promise, it appears to have fallen into the trap trying to be and stay cool.
Adioso has a lack of useful data. So working on whatever dreamy idea of natural language processing and making life easier for people isn't going anywhere fast.
I like ugly websites, they are useful and have lots of data so I can make useful decisions.
Adioso is not ugly. It makes decisions for me and then I go to Kayak to check the options. I want everything in front of me at once and Adioso moves away from that.
I only hope that Tom Howard has the sense to check the criticisms rather than just voting them down and pretending they don't exist.
Maybe it's time Tom showed off some of the criticisms about Adioso on his posts instead if all the roses. If people aren't complaining about Adioso then people aren't using it.
I only hope that Tom Howard has the sense to check the criticisms rather than just voting them down and pretending they don't exist. Maybe it's time Tom showed off some of the criticisms about Adioso on his posts instead if all the roses. If people aren't complaining about Adioso then people aren't using it.
You kidding me? I put the major criticisms right in the post. And we welcome criticism - one of the major reasons we publish posts like this is to attract criticism to help guide us in what our priorities should be. And I've never downvoted a polite/civil critical comment fwiw.
The criticisms I see in the article are;
1. Something from Paul Graham - It is his job to criticise.
2. “But it’s so slow!”
Otherwise it is overwhelmingly about personal problems and how Adioso is everyone's darling.
I can easily get 20 people to say my site is great, but to get 20 people to tell me it's a load of shit... that's the hard part. I don't need people to tell me that it's good, I need people wanting more.
What are you improving? What are you working on?
Don't get me wrong;
The ongoing soap opera about Adioso is a wonderful read, I wish more people had the guts to spell out all the bullshit that is involved in trying to make money from travel.
How you intend to get traffic/make money from Adioso is far beyond my comprehension.
I get 5 results searching New York to Singapore, and only 3 fit on the page at a time. Looks nice, but fucking awful to use as a tool.
FWIW, I think it's great you shared your troubles, it's not a discussion that's easy to have in any context. I think you and your team have a good eye and mindset and I hope you find the solution/pivot to your current problems (or else I wouldn't waste time with writing out criticisms)
While Adioso looks good and started off with promise, it appears to have fallen into the trap trying to be and stay cool.
Adioso has a lack of useful data. So working on whatever dreamy idea of natural language processing and making life easier for people isn't going anywhere fast.
I like ugly websites, they are useful and have lots of data so I can make useful decisions.
Adioso is not ugly. It makes decisions for me and then I go to Kayak to check the options. I want everything in front of me at once and Adioso moves away from that.
I only hope that Tom Howard has the sense to check the criticisms rather than just voting them down and pretending they don't exist.
Maybe it's time Tom showed off some of the criticisms about Adioso on his posts instead if all the roses. If people aren't complaining about Adioso then people aren't using it.