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TechCrunch+ roundup: Technical due diligence, web3’s promise, how to hire well

TechCrunch

Then again, I’m not a developer, so I didn’t truly appreciate the value of mobile gaming, GPS and cloud storage until they’d achieved product-market fit and were integrated into my smartphone. Today, I wouldn’t consider buying a device that couldn’t help me find a restaurant or hotel.

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WeTravel books $27M to build fintech and more for bespoke group travel

TechCrunch

Originally, Koeppel and his two co-founders Garib Mehdiyev (CTO) and Zaky Prabowo (CMO) had moved out from Azerbaijan, Indonesia, and Switzerland to the Bay Area to start the business, only to find it impossible to navigate the visa waters to bring engineers and other technical talent over, too. It becomes about fund management.

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Tour Operator Software: Itinerary Creator, Booking Engine, and Other Handy Technologies

Altexsoft

Before diving in, watch how tours and attractions market works. A tour operator is a travel company that devises the trip, books its components, markets it, and sells to travelers or travel agents. Besides, a tour operator can own some of the package components, for example, run an airline or hotel.

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Functional Prototype: How to Iterate with your Software Product

Altexsoft

In case a PoC is technically developed, it can be also called a feasibility prototype, which we will talk about further. Feasibility prototype – Testing technical limitations. Our sentiment analysis tool for aggregating hotel reviews is a good example. Choicy is now used as a demo for our clients in the travel technology market.

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Technical Feasibility in Software Engineering: Things to Consider Before Development Starts

Altexsoft

The authorities admitted that the previous 2024 deadline for human landing “ was not grounded on technical feasibility.”. Technical feasibility inspects whether software can be built at all with available tools and experts. In this article, we’ll concentrate on the technical side of feasibility that is our immediate area of expertise.

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Hotelbeds API Integration: Hands-on Experience with a Leading Bed Bank

Altexsoft

OTAs, hotel booking platforms , and other travel businesses need to have real-time access to extensive hotel inventories to offer diverse choices to their customers. With the strategic acquisition of Tourico Holidays and GTA wholesalers, Hotelbeds expanded its portfolio to encompass over 300,000 hotels across 200 destination countries.

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How MVP helped these Four Unicorns-Uber, AirBnB, Dropbox, Zappos

Enlume

A Minimum Viable Product (MVP) is a simplest form of a product with basic features to prove its technical, functional, financial and market viability. With the ‘invite only’ marketing tactic, the list of users grew slowly. That’s what we advise the entrepreneurs that come in touch with us.