CompareSasta – Meta Search Engine That gets you Sasta Products/Services
CompareSasta is a recently launched price comparison portal that enables comparing prices across range of products and services (for e.g. flight tickets, train tickets, broadband services etc)
To start off, the team has launched an online travel meta search – which does everything that current players (iXigo/zoomtra etc) are doing, but what’s interesting is that one can compare flight details across multiple flights and take an informed decision.
The site is neatly laid out (hope they maintain their neat UI, after launching other verticals) and is surely worth a try.
What’s your take on CompareSasta?
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Nice try ! Their UI is still premature. Search was quite slow.
This lateral comparison is quite counter-intuitive and not of much use.
Their FAQ seems a word by word copy of ixigo’s
Meta search as a business model is still not established in india – tough choice of space.
@FrequentFlier:
Guess you forgot to add that you are from iXiGo.
-Ashish
Whoever Frequentflier is, but his point seems a valid one.
Full site seems to be copy of IXIGO.com. I don’t understand why these guys can’t even create their own UI, what they think that users won’t get to know that from they had made copy.
Anyways, keep it up……
I usually logs in directly to one or two travel portal (which covers almost all the airlines) like makemytrip, cleartrip to finalize the Itinerary. It doesn’t take much time as these portals also provides proper sorting based on Travel time, cost of travel etc.
So why would anyone need a separate site just for price (etc…) comparison?
yuck!
Why we blame the Chinese, everyone out here’s a copycat …
One startup enters a particular domain with all fan fare and great buzz. Within no time you’ll come across news about 2-3 more startups launching in the same domain. Plenty of examples to illustrate my point:
1) Seventymm was the first entrant into the online DVD rental market. Suddenly you have Madhouse, CatchFlix, ClixFlix and several others who follow suit (For crying out loud, you dont have these many players in the US too)
2) Video Sharing for India – I dont know which one launched first. But within no time, you have AapKaVideo, MeraVideo, ApnaTube, VideoDubba
3) Shaadi.com came first. Then there was BharatMatrimony, JeevanSaathi, Badhai, MeraSathi, timesmatri
4) There’s indimoto, Carwale, automartIndia, AutoIndia, IndiaAutoMall (again – unsure which came first)
5) MakeMyTrip came first. Then came a D-E-L-U-G-E : Yatra, TravelGuru, ClearTrip, FlightRaja, Arzoo and numerous others
6) Picsquare was first. MeraSnap, PhotoJagat, PhotoMasti, iTasveer, SnapGalaxy quickly followed suit
7) Fropper and Orkut struck first. The next morning you read about Yaari, iBibo, MingleBox, Jhoom, SaffronConnect
Courtesy: http://www.startupdunia.com/2007/02/06/herd-mentality-and-indian-startups/
Well..That’s not a great analogy to go by – me-too players do succeed (if they bring in some sort of disruption).
me-too for the namesake have failed and will fail,but those who bring in better features will do better
Tried this. It is too slow. For sure its not even disruptive. I would go for alabot.travel@gmail.com
I think they are bit slow in showing connected flight results only.
But I like their connected flight intelligence.
I liked best thing about there flight results is there connectivity, even though its bit slow but their formula for getting connection was good.
I was stuck up in search for flight from Rajkot to Agra and didn’t find any in Ixigo, Zoomtra, Yatra but after going through this article I tried this site also and I was surprised to get results from there site.
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