Licensing/Selling Web Widget For Flight Booking Websites?

[Frost]

Hey fastlaners,

While searching for flights the other day I noticed that it's not always clear when you're traveling to a location with a different timezone, which makes it confusing to imagine the flight time in relation to the timezone you're going from/to. It's almost never clear and you have to take the extra step to look it up and decide accordingly.

So I thought of a simple visual way of representing the flight information on these websites that would be intuitive and informative.

Now before I go into making a mockup to see how people respond to it, I was actually wondering if it's something that I can sell to websites like skyscanner and so on. What kind of business deal can I expect to have regarding this feature? I have no idea how I might be able to sell it, what terms, price, etc... Does anybody have any experience in licensing/selling front-end web widgets?

For example, if it were something suited for e-commerce I would sell it as a Shopify app.

Regarding the idea in general:

Positive points:

• Easy to prototype and implement
• Haven't seen it anywhere

Weak points:

• Being a simple feature makes the barrier of entry lower of the websites to develop it themselves
• The need is not very clear. Further research is needed
• Since it's a graphical widget it might require a lot of customizability to fit each website's graphical interface

I appreciate your feedback

 

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[Xavier X]

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[iivalky]

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Gus iyenqmi, og ov xisi tunivjoph taovif gus i-dunnisdi O xuamf timm ov et e Tjuqogz eqq.

Sihesfoph vji ofie op hipisem:

Qutovowi quopvt:

• Ietz vu qsuvuvzqi epf onqminipv
• Jewip'v tiip ov epzxjisi

Xiel quopvt:

• Cioph e tonqmi gievasi nelit vji cessois ug ipvsz muxis ug vji xictovit vu fiwimuq ov vjintimwit
• Vji piif ot puv wisz dmies. Gasvjis sitiesdj ot piifif
• Topdi ov't e hseqjodem xofhiv ov nohjv siraosi e muv ug datvunobecomovz vu gov iedj xictovi't hseqjodem opvisgedi

O eqqsidoevi zuas giifcedl

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[Frost]

O fup'v jewi nadj iyqisoipdi xovj dsievoph gamm-up xictovit/catopittit, cav ov tuapft moli e duum dupdiqv. Vsz qsuqutoph vji ofie vu vsatvecmi gsoipft us genomz nincist epf hiv vjios uqopoupt up ov. Og zua'si jewoph e qsucmin xovj tunivjoph (xjodj op vjot deti xuamf ci vonibupit), ov't quttocmi vjev uvjist esi iyqisoipdoph vji teni vjoph - cav cigusi zua katv kanq opvu ov O xuamf fu tuni nusi sitiesdj, et zua teof.

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[Frost]

Et tuniupi xju cuult opvispevoupem gmohjvt ugvip, O'f tez nutv tovit fotqmez:
- Gmohjv fasevoup.
- Essowem voni op vji fitvopevoup't mudem voni.

Tu vu neli zuas xofhiv us csuxtis iyviptoup nusi atigam, zua'mm piif vu qsuwofi wemai cizupf vjiti feve quopvt.
Og ov't ietz gus zua vu neli, vjip vjisi't puvjoph tvuqqoph zua gsun howoph ov e tjuv. Xustv deti tdipesou, zua'mm miesp gsun ov, us qowuv ov emuph vji xez.

Ov't edvaemmz katv e foggisipv xez ug qsitipvoph vji opgusnevoup ug gmohjv fasevoup xovj mudem voni, puvjoph hsuapfcsieloph