Comments on: If You Are A Frequent Traveler, You Are Going To Love Tripit

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[...] emails from multiple sources and creates a master itinerary. As Mike Arrington noted in Techcrunch: It’s dead simple to use and it keeps you organized – all you have to do is forward confirmation [...]

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 02:03:49 +0000

I always thought email forwarding like this would be ideal. The problem is creating a smart parser. A slight change in the emails ruins (temporarily) the system.

By: Sam Daams

Sam Daams — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:56:17 +0000

I actually did a pretty lengthy review of the service when it was first launched at TC40. Details in link above – even caught your site offline when posting The results were disappointing for me, although I like the idea and being in the industry I’d say it has potential IF it works in 90% + of the cases. With the number of affiliates, sub sites etc. out there, I just doubt that will ever happen. But I still like the idea….

By: KEHT

KEHT — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:09:21 +0000

I just tried TripIt with my Christmas trip overseas with layover through Amsterdam bought through Travelocity. It completely couldn’t parse the first leg of a trip. Sucks ass!!!

By: Yen

Yen — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:45:41 +0000

I like their business model given the vast majority of the online travel industry’s profitability comes from selling hotels. So, presumably we all send Tripit our flight dets and give Gregg the ability to merchandise hotels to us. Sounds like a mutually-beneficial Trojan horse (did I just manage to butcher an age old metaphor?)

I haven’t used Tripit yet as I’m not big on flying, can anyone tell me if they have real time alerts for flight and gate changes like Orbitz? I love that functionality on Orbitz.

@raolin – I’m biased toward Yahoo! Trip Planner too, but it seems to me that YTP is focused on organizing land-based trips while Gregg is solving the problem of organizing flight-based trips

@ Jessica Mah – I guess there are so many online travel companies because they are trying to grab a slice of the $679B spent in the US on travel in 2006 (TIA). “only” ~$80-85B of that was spent online.

At http://www.kango.com, we are targeting the start of trip planning, helping you make decisions about where to go etc. so you know what to book (i.e. then go off to your favorite booking site or price meta-search engine). We are pre-beta, but I’d welcome your feedback if you can sign up for private beta, which is coming soon – http://www.kang....com/TechCrunch

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:24:29 +0000

@Jimmy Hat – Right on
@ Rob – You must not travel much huh? Yes, in this case paper IS the way to go, because when I’m getting off the plane and racing to the rent-a-car desk or to catch the bus to the hotel, I don’t have time to boot up my computer to get my reservation number, I pull a piece of paper out of my carry on and I’m all set. Simple yet effective.

Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:50:42 +0000

Jimmy — have you actually tried Tripit? I sent in a flight and a hotel and it automatically gave me driving directions from the airport to the hotel. And I can access all this info even if my printouts aren’t with me. The ical feature is cool too, as it tells me where my friends will be at any given time. I wish it included detailed schedule info in the ical feed, but I have to imagine they are working on this.

By: gilltots

gilltots — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:43:59 +0000

This would have been super useful for a recent trip I took to Fiji and the Cook Islands. Lots of different flights, staying at tons of different places, moving through lots of timezones (and crossing the International dateline)…the notepad itinerary i made was a piece of crap.

So as far as vacations go, I’d say this is a great idea. I have no idea how well they executed it, or how necessary it is for the average traveling business goober.

Look for an acquisition by tripadvisor in the next 6-12 months (

By: RaoLin

RaoLin — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:12:42 +0000

I liked the Y! Travel Trip Planner better

By: Jimmy Hat

Jimmy Hat — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:33:02 +0000

wow – a travel website that can assemble an itinerary. Woo Hoo…..Tis has to be the most ridiculous bullshit ever funded…..

1. Online agency already does this.
2. Travel Agency already does this
3. Even if you book yourself the airline sends you an itinerary online…..how often do you book single trips with multiple different airlines for the same itin.
4. even if you book air and hotel directly with airline or hotel the wost you get is one print out with air and one print out with hotel – actually a bit more convient this way anyway.

$1M for parsing itin from suppilers….what a joke….kudos to the thripit guys for securing funding….the real questions is what were the guys at O’Reilly AlphaTech smoking?

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:07:11 +0000

Are people seriously saying paper is a better way to go? Do you still write down your appointments in a paper organizer, or are you storing them electronically in Outlook or a PDA? What happens if you lose that piece of paper in your briefcase?

Having everything in one place is really cool, especially if you book on multiple websites. Before a trip, I often have to search through my Outlook to find all those confirms and print them out… which can be a challenge, especially when my flight is only 2 hours away. Then I forget to print maps and directions, forget to send my plans to my wife, etc. I think Tripit is terrific because it automates all of this. If you travel a lot, I think you’d recognize how much efficiency and value can come from this site.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 15:04:32 +0000

I think I should start a service where a forward all my emails to a website so they can show me a list of my emails on a single window because looking at them on my email program is too hard. I’ll call it Inbox.com

By: Ben Saren

Ben Saren — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:29:23 +0000

I’ve been using TripIt for a few weeks now and I’ve used it for 2 different trips. I love it. I love the fact that my wife and colleagues can have accounts and look at my itineraries instead of asking me times/locations etc. I’m a big fan. Their email-in-your-itinerary functionality is improving all the time too.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 12:47:29 +0000

@28 – I see what your saying, but that’s what the “Forward” button on the email program is for. I don’t need to sign up for a service to use it.

It may seem cool, but the slight marginal increase in value does not overcome the pain of trying something new and having to go to another website to forward emails (itneraries) to other people. Because of that it won’t achieve mass adaption.

By: airj1012

airj1012 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:22:51 +0000

Found a demo tucked away on the website. Sorry for all the comments, hopefully this will be the last one.

http://www.tripit.com/uhp/demo

By: airj1012

airj1012 — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 06:05:00 +0000

Well this says a lot from the people that travel a lot. It seems as its not needed. I understand where they are coming from but from briefly looking around I might have found ONE feature that could be good. I think I saw a share feature. This would be good for people going out of town on vacation and being able to give out their itinerary for emergency purposes etc. Of course that doesn’t make the application very valuable for one feature but thought I’d share that.

By: Wes

Wes — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:29:11 +0000

This looks cool and I will try to use it when I next travel.

By: MC

MC — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 05:26:39 +0000

Ok, I am yet another heavy traveller, and I didn’t see the value in this. I actually was getting a bit concerned at Web 2.0 when they demo’d. They are adding a whole load of wiz bang into this, and I sat there thinking “Boy, all things considered, I think I’d prefer just having a piece of paper instead.”

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:51:34 +0000

Gabe – right on, I don’t need to send my iteneraries to a website to be told what I already know. how is this better then printing out my confirmation emails and putting them in my carry on? Same information, same amount of paper or PDA space.

seriously, someone put $1M into this?

By: Dan Ackerman Greenberg

Dan Ackerman Greenberg — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:41:05 +0000

Hey, you guys should do a round-up of all the companies who presented at TC40 and have since been funded…

Dan
http://www.acke...angreenberg.com

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 04:13:42 +0000

Gabe – my point exactly. I travel as much as you, up to Seven months out of the year is O.S… Arrrgh Me and my PC!