virail is a transport metasearch like Skyscanner for flights, but includes all different means (trains, buses, car sharing and flights), fetching live data for a number of travel companies, embedding in a single listing result set.
Hello PH,
I'm Dario, an Italian maker. I recently found out this community and it felt the right place for someone like me: I like to run ideas and turn them in useful websites.
I'm here with my first post about my project called virail: a transport metasearch (🚆✈️🚘)
I started working on it around 2013 as a side project while being employee for other companies. I saw it grow with time to the point it is now a sustainable company based in Berlin and Milano.
It has always been a hard technical challenge, dealing with so much data and make it happen in real time is way beyond any MVC project I dealt in the past. I had to find out-of-the-average solutions, the ones you cannot really find using Google or StackOverflow.
The whole world is a long winged target, but, step by step, the coverage is increasing.
I hope you like it and any criticism is welcome and appreciated!
@jacqvon as metasearch, the biggest task would be to continuously add coverage, meaning more companies providing more routes. I think it is essential to be able to show the most accurate and up-to-date data.
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