Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Our users have been telling us to include the Tatkal availability details for Trains at 90di.com. Yesterday we released this feature.
Now you can get the availability details for both General and Tatkal quota for trains. We have kept the UI simple, just select the appropriate radio button in the availability column.
Example: Bangalore to Mumbai by train tomorrow
See the below screen shots for more details.

Availability details for Train 1014

Tatkal availability details for train 1014
Please try out this at 90di.com and give your feedback on this.
Tags: availability, Indian Railways, tatkal, tatkal availability, train, train reservation, travel, travel search
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Heard that @Infosys recently closed a deal on Twitter? @90di got a review and interview done. Thanks to twitter.
Arkid Mitra from microreviews.org contacted 90di.com on twitter for an interview as part of their new series “start-up reviews and interviews”. The interview was conducted on the same day. The very next day they published it. You can read the full article on microreviews.org.
They have done a wonderful job by doing a comprehensive review of 90di.com. There have pointed out some of the shortcomings of 90di. We need these kind of reviews and feedback. We will address these points.
But couple of things we wanted to clarify:
- Mumbai to Nazira: Yes we do not show routes from Mumbai to Nazira. But we do ‘Near Search’ for this. Nazira doesn’t have Train or Flight connectivity. So we give options where users can choose a ‘big place’ near to Nazira. This list includes Dibrugarh. So if user chooses Dibrugarh, we show routes from Mumbai to Dibrugarh.
- Mumbai to Jammu via Lucknow: 90di understands this query as the user wants routes between Mumbai and Jammu which passes through Lucknow. Since there are direct Train/Flights available between Mumbai and Jammu, we show the direct routes first. We also show the routes which have transit at Lucknow. But we agree that in order to not confuse the user, we can remove the direct routes (being extra nice can confuse the user 🙂 just give him what he wants)
Thanks again to Arkid and microreviews.org folks for doing an effort review. All the best for your site folks!
Tags: 90DI, 90di.com, flight, flights, infosys, interview, microreviews.org, review, train, trains, travel, travel search, twitter
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