Flight Booking Optimization Tool by Zeno Ziemke

Experiment

If users want to pay or an award flight booking tool

Key Takeaways

• • The rebranding from AwareFlights to LTVAwardFlights indicates a strategic shift focused on enhancing user perception and potentially elevating market positioning.
• • Introducing real-time availability as a fourth benefit effectively addresses a critical user need, likely increasing the tool's appeal to frequent flyers seeking immediate options.
• • The initial performance of the app builders Codeium and Windsurf showcasing strong capabilities reflects their potential, but inconsistencies in latency and completeness, such as airport names in autocomplete, highlight areas for improvement.
• • The ability to quickly implement features like dark mode and improved autocomplete suggests that iterative feedback loops are essential for refining user experience, reinforcing agility in development.
• • Utilizing the landing page and demo for user interviews offers a practical approach to validating assumptions and gathering insights, critical for ongoing product enhancement and customer engagement.

App Builders Used

Codeium / Windsurf

Prompting Strategies

I gave a very vague prompt and let Windsurf figure out everything themselves. My first prompt was: create a landing page and a demo page for an aware flight optimization tool. It allows you to set the depature and arrivial location, econoy/biusiness/first class and the loyaliy programm, trip length and month and it will then find you award flight availability

Project Outcomes

What Worked Well

I then asked it to add a dark mode, as well as autocomplete for the airport names, which it added well

What Didn't Work Well

It was slow to generate (i guess you can pay extra for lower latency) it at first did not add all airport names (only major ones) i needed to prompt several times until it had added enough airpots to the autocomplete

Surprising Findings

The first thing it came up was already pretty good.

Moving Forward

I can use this landing page and demo to show it to customers during user interviews for user research which is awesome

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