"Putting down hipmunk before launching when you are going to compete with them..."

I argue that this is the main problem with the entire blog post. I would rather than Mozio actually showed why they are better than all of the social travel startups they mention, as opposed to disparaging them while their own homepage links to a Launchrock signup page.

We aren't social travel martey. Never said we were. The post was about the entire travel industry. We barely mention our own project in the post exactly because we thought it would take away from the argument: we aren't making a sales pitch or trying to sell anything as we aren't in the social travel discovery space and aren't really catering to the same market as hipmunk (we are targeting budget travelers who want to compare buses, trains, the backpacker type).

I admitted it was a good service, my commentary was focused on why I don't use it, and the reason is it isn't different enough to break my habit.

I have been told many times that you can't build a business to compete with the major players by being 5% better than them. You need to be 5x better than them, otherwise people won't switch. That is my point, and for me, I realized that the visualization of time data is not what bothers me every time I go to Kayak, so I wasn't really prone to switching.

I am merely trying to provide a little bit of introspection . . . and I guess I don't know what you expect. Yes we are putting out a travel product soon, but that doesn't invalidate my opinion on what is out there, and there is a reason a large portion of people still use Expedia etc. . . .