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Why We Built Our Own Flight Search Engine (And What We Learned)

The story behind Pointify—why the existing flight search market is broken, what we learned building a search engine from scratch, and the technical decisions that shaped our product.

Pointify Research Team·Jan 29, 2026

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How We Search 300+ Airlines in Under 3 Seconds

A look inside Pointify’s deal engine—how we aggregate fares from Duffel NDC, scrape Google Flights, query award databases, and stream results to your browser in real time using Server-Sent Events.

Pointify Research Team·Jan 8, 2026

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