Duffel (YC S18) – A faster way to sell flights
Hi everyone! I'm Steve, founder and CEO of Duffel. We're so excited to introduce Duffel Links today - a low code solution to sell flights online fast. Through one single API request, offer your customers a best-in-class shopping experience tailored to your brand. Since day 1, we've made it our mission to break down barriers in the travel industry and make it easy for anyone to start selling travel. Now with Links, you can still use Duffel even if you don't have technical skills. It truly has never been easier to get started selling travel. The Problem: We've removed many blockers to selling…
Duffel (YC S18) – A faster way to sell flights launched on February 16, 2023 with 89 votes, #567 of 3,829 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.
In plain words
Duffel is a platform that enables businesses to sell flights online through a simple API or low-code interface. It offers a pre-built flight shopping experience that can be customized to match a brand, accessible even to users without technical skills. Designed for travel companies and businesses entering the flight sales market, Duffel eliminates common technical barriers like handling passenger age variations and complex trip types, making it faster and easier to launch flight sales functionality.
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From the sources
Duffel Links | The fastest and easiest way to start selling Travel. With our low-code solution, you can save time and resources while leveraging our travel and product design expertise. Start selling Travel today.
Generate a link to offer your customer a state-of-the-art booking experience, customised to your brand. We handle the complexities of travel domain knowledge, accreditation and access to airlines so you don't have to – no development resources needed. Through a single link, your customers can book flights across 300+ of the world's best airlines. Leverage thousands of hours of expertise in travel and product design. Your customers can search for their preferred flight instantly using autocomplete functionality, search filters and more. Own the entire journey and add markups easily to flights using our intuitive dashboard. Up-sell ancillary products like seats and bags as part of the…from duffel.com
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi everyone! I'm Steve, founder and CEO of Duffel. We're so excited to introduce Duffel Links today - a low code solution to sell flights online fast. Through one single API request, offer your customers a best-in-class shopping experience tailored to your brand. Since day 1, we've made it our mission to break down…
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Hey HN, We're Steve and Tom (YC S18), the co-founders of Duffel (https://duffel.com/), an API-based travel platform. Think of Stripe, but for searching and booking flights. We built Duffel after running head first into the problem of accessing airline inventory for a side-project that we had. All the providers out there (ever heard of a GDS? Amadeus? Sabre?) felt antiquated, expensive and quite frankly didn't even want to work with us. To top it up, once we started digging the only things we could hear were "PNR", "IATA", "ARC", "RBD" and other wonderful acronyms. It’s…
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