yo bro .. u think this is legal to do so ? i mean .. extract data out from airasia and then redisplay it on your site ? i was told by the support team of air asia sometiem back then that this is against their general rules le.. so you better take note of this

Noted about that. Thank you!

@Fleapy
If you don't mind, I wonder how you extract the data from airasia? You extract the data on the fly or you pre-extract it then store it at your db then serve it to us?

It just works, like Magic! But the more you use it, the close we get towards real-time.

Are you on of the technical programmer for your website?

It is cool that you are able to mirror those data out

Probably in the future, might need to ask if you are willing to help me in some projects as well

Thanks for effort!!!

Great for me to plan my trip... helps a lot..

Our team only consist of 2 guys, we do everything from top to bottom.

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Added on September 17, 2011, 11:08 amAwesome! We are really glad that it helped!
And thanks for giving it a shot!

This post has been edited by Fleapy: Sep 17 2011, 11:08 AM

Great job guys. I'm really delighted and proud to find a great start-up from Msia instead of just Singapore and Indonesia.

For others, you might wanna check-out my post on Fleapy at Evan Hugh

Here is my review for your Fleapy.com

Should be able to give you a 800-900 views boost for a day, and a nice tagline for you brother.

AirAsia simplified - Fleapy.com

Cheers

This post has been edited by Bonescythe: Sep 20 2011, 11:33 PM

Thank you Azril for featuring us on EvanHugh!
It's really interesting you asked about the last few questions in your post. =)

Thanks alot Bonescythe. Thank you for blogging a post about us. We couldn't agree more with your title of Air Asia Simplified.
And yup we hope you are able to score an awesome getaway using our site! =D

The Air Asia promo event was a huge one, and we it didn't turn out the way that we would like it to be at 12am.
Anyhow, we have updated most of our routes with the promo low fares and also a step by step guide on how to make the best out of the promo.
Hope you guys find it helpful!

One feature lacking is that it does not enable us to pick the range of dates, but only highlights the lowest possible fares, which may not fall on the date of our travels.

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Added on September 22, 2011, 8:38 pmon another note, how do you monetize this?

i think since its tied to airasia, you can opt for them to place ads on your site, since it helps users simplify their searches. Can include other airlines as well. Then you can have trousim related ads?

This post has been edited by happy4ever: Sep 22 2011, 08:38 PM

We are really sorry for that missing feature.
Yea we have been thinking about that for a bit. But we decided to keep the app simple, just pick your destinations and only show the lowest fares.
Showing more dates would be cool, but that would turn our app to be quite similar to Air Asia's offering.
Figuring that the one thing they didnt tell you is where those low fares are.
So yea, that is a missing key feature, we will continue to think about the best way to deal with that, and eventually support that.

As for monetization, to be honest we have never thought about that yet. Fleapy is maintained as a side project by the 2 of us.
When it scales up, we will figure a way to fund it and keep it going. But for now, we think what we have now works well for us

Just a simple google ads might sound nice

Yes it is. But, after thinking for a bit, we think there isn't much people who are going to click it.
The ads can be relevant/irrelevant. Adding that wouldn't really change much or help cover the entire cost.

If not many users are going to click it, then there isn't much reason for being there.
It would probably create an extra noise in the design.

We aim to give the best user experience when you're searching on Fleapy.
So when it comes to ads, we are going to think further on how/what to show

This post has been edited by Fleapy: Sep 23 2011, 02:03 AM

You wouldn't know if people are going to click on it or not..
Haha..

Don't judge your audience so fast without even knowing them yet

This post has been edited by Bonescythe: Sep 23 2011, 09:38 AM

Thanks, that's a really great insight!
But if we were to add Google Ads onto our page, we would need to increase its conversion/clickthrough rate.
That would mean putting it somewhere obvious and visible so users would click.
That may probably affect the user experience that we set out to create in the first place.
As for now, It's more rewarding to see users enjoy using the app rather than making some quick money out of it; but the future might be different.