Comments on: CompareSasta – Meta Search Engine That gets you Sasta Products/Services

By: Santosh

Santosh — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:25:23 +0000

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……

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By: Rajesh Goyal

Rajesh Goyal — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:06:23 +0000

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.

By: Rajesh Goyal

Rajesh Goyal — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 06:59:35 +0000

I think they are bit slow in showing connected flight results only.

But I like their connected flight intelligence.

By: Shyam

Shyam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:58:24 +0000

Tried this. It is too slow. For sure its not even disruptive. I would go for alabot.travel@gmail.com

By: Ashish

Ashish — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:46:59 +0000

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

By: Dinkar

Dinkar — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:28:48 +0000

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

There’s HumDigg, IndianBytes, NewsCola, PutVote, IndianPad, IndiaMarks (unsure which was first)

Courtesy: http://www.startupdunia.com/2007/02/06/herd-mentality-and-indian-startups/

By: Ashish A

Ashish A — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:51:33 +0000

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?

By: Ashish

Ashish — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:04:46 +0000

@FrequentFlier:
Guess you forgot to add that you are from iXiGo.

-Ashish

By: FrequentFlier

FrequentFlier — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:59:46 +0000

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.