MileHi

Network and make friends in the sky

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Network and make friends in the sky

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Since there were 37.4 million flights scheduled in 2014. How many people do you think will need to sign up to get at least 2 random people on any given flight?

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11yr ago

Navily

@walterareid and that's a great question. The critical size is quite high and it's definitely the biggest challenge.

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@walterareid I am glad you brought this up! This was a topic of hot discussion during our planning and research phases :) We recognised this early on, and at this stage have covered this off by letting you browse flights to the same destination +- 24 hours. So if you are off to Ibiza for example, and want to meet some party people, any other global flights TO Ibiza in that time frame will also let you swipe left and right and join in the chat there too. We also have a large expansion for the chat rooms planned, focused around chatting topics (business, holiday, partying, etc), as well as airport centric chat rooms. This should increase the chance of encounters greatly.

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11yr ago

Unsolicited UX opinion? Allow for free-form entry for dates. People are WAY faster at typing things in (as they're used to) than scrolling through a date picker. This singular change on our signup page increased conversion 34%.

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@itsdevlin Interesting point Sean! During development we went through about 4 iterations of the date input. The current implementation felt the most fool proof of the lot, especially with ambiguous date formats eg UK / USA. Will definitely revisit and likely A/B test too, thanks for the tip!

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11yr ago

@h0rseh0rse The other quick point of feedback was that the form for entering a flight seemed frustratingly difficult. Autocompletes weren't pulling the airlines as I'd expect, airports weren't pulling predictably (Ie, i typed in OAK and Oakland wasn't the first result). Have you checked out http://constructor.io ? @elifinkel is the Founder and I think their service could help you guys out a ton with simplifying those entry fields. Also the carrier code on the flight was required which I thought was weird. I've flown 600k miles on Southwest and didn't know their carrier code was UW. Could you combine autocomplete and the flight # to get the info you need without prompting the user for it?

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@itsdevlin Agreed the add flight needs a bit of rethinking. Eventually we want to tie in with live flight data, so a lot of the fields will be automated / selecting from only existing options. Will have a look at Constructor though in the mean time :) And unsure what you mean re: not needing the carrier code. The flight number is generally a number, prefixed with the IATA or ICAO carrier code. Unless you mean show carriers operating from that route to choose from?

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11yr ago

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My good friend Chris just launched this, and I am SO using it on my next flight - it lets you tap into a network of people who are flying at the same time as you, and the app is available for iPhone and Android. Thank the Gods. What do we think?

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11yr ago

Cool concept Chris. Is messaging included during the flight? If so does it require a wireless connection?

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@mikelholford Thanks Mike! Yes messaging is intended for both before, and during the flight. We are aware that not all airlines currently offer in flight wifi, but we will be featuring news and comparisons of airlines that offer 'connected' flights, be they free or paid etc to better inform the community, and frequent flyers as a whole.

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11yr ago

Hey Chris, I've loved this idea and from first glance it looks like you guys have produced this pretty nicely. In addition to chatting, have you thought about building in any simple games you can play with other passengers? I'm imagining how older trans-atlantic flights had (or still have) a trivia game where the whole plane could play along. But you could expand this to checkers, chess, backgammon, etc. Also, barring connectivity challenges, I could see this picking up on trains and subways too (given the trip is long enough to engage the user). Great work!

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@bradleyengel Hi Brad, thanks :) We already have polls that users can take part in, ranging from in flight ratings, to telling people if they are flying for business or pleasure. But yes we have both games (I actually started my dev career coding IRC trivia bots some 15+ years ago :P), and gamification elements planned. This specifically is something we are very excited about as it will increase engagement, and bring extra value to our users. Also agreed on other forms of travel. Something we have picked up on, however we believe the key to success is finding a niche and doing that really well. Definitely not ruling it out, but we are focusing on the flight aspect of things for now.

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11yr ago

Navily

Hey Chris, you should check getwingman.co slightly more geared towards airplane dating but seems close to your project Airdates.co as well... Long list but I really like the idea.

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@fiessedouard Hi Fiess, thanks very much :) We actually stumbled across the Wingman guys recently. I think they are both similar, but they have narrowed their sights on the whole Tinder / dating aspect. This is something people can do on MileHi if they wish, however we believe there are huge opportunities in the business networking space, and general holiday makers too. Best of luck to both of them, and it validates our idea nicely, however we think there's a whole host of different use cases for MileHi. Being niche is good, but being multiple nested niches may restrict their potential too much.

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@fiessedouard Oh and also, I bet Wingman wished they had our name... ;)

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11yr ago

Navily

@h0rseh0rse ahhahaah I bet they do :) I agree on the dating VS business part! Good luck to you guys!

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11yr ago

VYVE

Great idea Chris. Do you give access to users' Linkedin profiles directly from the app? It could also be nice to have a location-based list of people that I have met during my flights shown on a map with my travel locations. I also loved the airplane animation at the bottom of your website.

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11yr ago

MileHi

Maker

@illaigescheit No direct integration to users LinkedIn at the moment, however in its easiest form (a link) fairly simple. Could also login with LinkedIn and pull data directly, will add to the list, good idea! We have plans to show users that frequently cross paths, but I like the idea of showing it on a map. Maps always make things feel a lot more visual, as have done some cool stuff with them on other projects, another good one for phase 2 me thinks. Thanks Illai :)

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