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Changelog

What we shipped

Follow our progress as we build the best travel search platform.

Search Intelligence & Reliability

  • Flight search across 300+ airlines with real-time pricing
  • Hotel search with loyalty points integration (Hilton, Hyatt)
  • Cruise search with Royal Caribbean and Carnival results
  • Smart sort: Cheapest, Fastest, and Best Value tabs
  • Airline logos on flight cards for instant recognition
  • Circuit breaker and retry logic for search reliability
  • Browser pool with stealth anti-detection for scraping

Conversion & Growth

  • Price alerts: set a target, get emailed when fares drop
  • Share button on flight cards (Web Share API + clipboard)
  • Recent searches saved in localStorage for quick re-search
  • Popular route suggestions for first-time visitors
  • Search usage counter showing remaining daily searches
  • Upgrade prompt when free tier limit is reached
  • Waitlist capture on beta feature pages

SEO & Discovery

  • 50 destination pages (25 US + 25 international)
  • JSON-LD structured data on all destination pages
  • Canonical URLs and Open Graph meta tags
  • 897 total indexed pages across the product ecosystem
  • Sitemap with 74 Pointify URLs

UX & Polish

  • Cmd+K global search overlay with destinations and quick actions
  • Cleaned navigation: 6 focused items instead of 14
  • Dashboard explore section for all features
  • SVG icons replacing all emojis across the product
  • Honest trust badges: Updated daily, Data-driven, No signup required
  • Date validation (client + server) preventing invalid searches
  • Helpful empty state with suggestions when no results found

Infrastructure & Security

  • Internal API key authentication between Vercel and deal engine
  • Rate limiting: 100 authenticated / 30 anonymous per minute
  • 22 CloudWatch alarms for ECS, RDS, Redis, and ALB
  • Daily scraper health check cron at 6 AM UTC
  • Deep health endpoint checking DB, Redis, and browser pool
  • Launch readiness script for pre-launch verification

Email & Retention

  • 15 email templates (booking confirmation, fare alerts, drip campaign)
  • 7 onboarding emails + 3 winback emails via hourly cron
  • Signed unsubscribe tokens with HTML confirmation page
  • Cross-product ecosystem links on success pages

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