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2014 – The Year Our Servers Crashed! 2014 – The Year Our Servers Crashed!

2014 was a "get your act together and focus" year for us. At the end of 2013, we winded down all service-projects that were "helping us bootstrap" (bad idea in hindsight; a topic for another post); and entered 2014 with...

Product Updates Tech

Announcing a better way to showcase your tour schedule Announcing a better way to showcase your tour schedule

We were never completely happy with how our booking form worked for tours with few dates of operation. While it worked well for a tour available on most days of the week/month, it wasn't ideal for something like a 10-day...

Product Updates

Announcing multiple user accounts Announcing multiple user accounts

It's been long overdue, and it has probably been the most requested feature. Finally, it's here! You can now create multiple users to access your Vacation Labs backoffice. No need to share a single username & password across the company....

Fun at Work

How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer How we converted an MBA to a kickass developer

From being yet another engineer+MBA to a kickass developer. Ashwin has truly come a long way. (more…)

Technical

AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk” AngularJS – How to get a directive & controller to “talk”

We’ve been building Single Page Apps” (SPAs) with AngularJS over the last few months and have been blown away with what it enables us to achieve. Our front-end code was a stinking pile of jQuery DOM manipulation, ad-hoc data attributes,...

Fun at Work Technical

The Ruby Hackathon Roundup The Ruby Hackathon Roundup

48 Hours. 4 Coders. 1 Awesome Web-app. Last month we hosted a Ruby Hackathon over the weekend. We had a truckload of applications from college students, working professionals, college professors (!), and one application from Gujarat! We weren’t geared to host such...

Online Marketing

Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com

Brilliant creative by AdRoll.com — a re-targeting platform for online ads. It gets the message across AND demonstrates their product! PS: I had visited their website to research something on Facebook re-targeting.

Technical

An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified! An Unpluggd Demo – Quantified!

lot of people have asked me whether demoing at Unpluggd last year was useful for Vacation Labs. As a B2B product in the travel space I didn't expect potential customers to be at the event. (more…)

Fun at Work

MakeMyTrip taking dig at Cleartrip MakeMyTrip taking dig at Cleartrip

Spotted this awesome comeback from MakeMyTrip. Context: Cleartrip’s obvious and tad unoriginal dig at MakeMyTrip on April Fool’s Day (more…)