When I first heard about Hitlist, I was like, ‘okay cool, another travel flash sale site’, but after spending hours and hours navigating through the app and website, I found out it is definitely not just another Expedia or Kayak. Hitlist is comprised of travel obsessed techies who are scattered about the world from Holland to Sydney to the far reaches of China. Their app aims to inspire travel through incredible photography and amazing flight deals. Users are able to make a list of destinations they would like to travel to and get alerts on great flights based on a specific algorithm they built, they call it “magic”: you tell them where you want to go and they will tell you the best time to get there. Hitlist has also just launched their new web browser, Hitlist Web, and a chrome extension, Wandertab.

Just like Posh Voyage, Hitlist’s entire goal is to make travel easier and inspire their users to find a deal, pack their bags and go. If Hitlist isn’t on your radar yet, now is the time to get yourself acquainted for the next big name in travel flash sales. Download the App on iTunes now!

1. How did you come up this idea?

Gillian Morris and Timo de Winter, two of the founders, first started working together for a hackathon in 2012, which they won. In the summer of 2013, Luka Kladaric joined the team and the project evolved into Hitlist, a mobile platform for consumers to list trips they want to take, and to receive notifications when there are deals to those places.


2. What exactly does Hitlist do?

Hitlist is a mobile platform that allows users to create a list of places they want to go and then we alert them when we find a cheap flight to that location. We also connect to your social network so we find out where your friends have been, where they want to go and where they live, contextualizing your travel.


3. What are your future goals with Hitlist?

Continue to inspire travel! That has always been our #1 goal. We also plan to add more social components to make it easier to connect with friends and continue to find better and more up-to-date deals.  


4. You mentioned Hitlist recommends the best time for a traveler to go to one of these destinations, is that based on weather or pricing?

This is based on pricing. We are continually scanning for amazing deals and we let our users know when we find them.


5. How does this benefit a traveler as opposed to looking up flights themselves?

When a traveler is looking for flights themselves they have very fixed search options. If you have a schedule that is at all flexible, it would take hundreds of queries to find the best deals. Hitlist is constantly scanning the Internet for the best deals, weeding out the bad deals and finding the cheapest flights. Once you add a city to your Hitlist, we will watch flights to that city and send you the best deals we find.


6. How would you say you compare to other big Flight Sale websites such as Expedia or Kayak?

Traditional search engines have very strict search options. If you have a very specific travel schedule, then these search engines work well. If you have any flexibility or just know you want to go to Europe this summer, then Hitlist can find you the best deal.


7. What is Wandertab?

Wandertab is our newest product, a chrome extension to inspire travel. Every time you open tab, an amazing photograph appears with a great deal to that location. Pressing refresh is absolutely addicting and finding amazing deals has never been easier.


8. Is there anything else you would want our readers to know?

We also inspire travel on all of our social outlets especially, Instagram: @Hitlistapp and Twitter: Hitlist_app.