Cheep is a native iOS app that helps you find and discover amazing, really cheap flight deals --- and mistake fares that save up to 90% on tickets to/from over 200 domestic and international destinations. Widgets, dark mode, watchOS companion app and more!
👋 Hey ProductHunt!
Early last year, I built Cheep for iOS after my roommate @emcro (maker of CardPointers) convinced me how cool 😎 building apps natively for Apple are.
💸 Cheap Flight Deals From Over 200 Domestic/International Destinations
Cheep is an app that helps you find and discover amazing, really cheap flight deals --- and mistake fares that save up to 90% on tickets.
💡 Inspiration
The inspiration for Cheep stemmed over five years ago when I was a digital nomad, solo travel to at least one destination every other month.
Many of the OTA would display the cheapest flight based on a single input of parameters. I faced the problem: how do I know if the flight is a good deal from the continent I was flying out from.
🌎 Experienced cheap flight hunter
After traveling to 35+ countries, a pattern to how I searched for a good deal emerged. Ever since I applied that in practice when hunting for a solid cheap flight deal.
The next problem is the list of places to explore was vast, and I didn't have time to compare which destination would give me the biggest bang for the buck.
And so I set out to build Cheep to solve these two problems for myself, and hopefully, others will find it helpful too.
👩💻 Personalized
Cheep personalizations deals from your airports of interest. So you can filter out the noise of regional flight deals and get only great fares that matter to you.
🤖 Automated
Cheep is automated, searching over 300,000 routes around the globe a week. As a solo maker, I didn't have time to hunt and peck every route, date, cabin, etc. And then do the mental calculation on the cheapest flight to determine if it passes the test on a flight I'd personally book myself.
🔥 Deal Frequency
Scaling allows for more flight deals and mistake fares to bubble up than a team of human fare finders. Flights, once they pass the test, are then graded on three levels, "Good," "Great," and "Amazing" flight deals.
🤑 Mistake Fares
The real dirt cheap flights are considered "Mistake" fares which get their rare label.
Behind the scenes, I put in a lot of hardware, time, and money to invest in Cheep. The journey of building the app was fun. Unfortunately, when I was ready to open for a beta to get feedback, COVID struck.
And it's been in beta ever since.
Europe is now lifting summer travel restrictions. Airlines are starting to raise prices to cover lost revenue from business travelers.
I hope that Cheep app will be helpful to you to get a raging great deal.
If you do end booking a flight deal, shoot me an email at jc[at]usecheep.com --- love to know where you are going and how much you paid. 🙂
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