Why I built Skye

I built Skye because booking travel had stopped feeling like the start of something exciting and started feeling like homework.

Ten tabs open. Prices that change while you look at them. Fees that appear only at the last step. A calendar you scroll back and forth trying to guess which day is cheaper. By the time you book, the joy of "I'm going somewhere" is buried under an hour of admin.

I didn't want to build another flight search site. There are enough of those, and they all feel the same. What I actually wanted was the feeling of having a friend who happens to be great with flights. Someone you can just talk to. "I've got a long weekend, somewhere warm, not too expensive," and they come back with a real answer, not fifty tabs.

That's what Skye is. You talk, she listens, and she does the digging. She finds the cheapest days to fly across the whole year (for some routes to start with), shows you the place before you commit, plans the trip day by day if you want, and books it right there in the conversation. In your own language. She remembers your last trip so you never start from zero.

Two things I care about more than growth.

First, honesty about money. Skye never marks up your fare. You pay what the airline charges plus one small, flat fee, and you see the full number before you pay. No quiet percentage skimmed off the top. If you can't build a business being straight with people about the price, I'd rather not build it.

Second, no walls. You don't need an account to talk to Skye, to see real fares, or to plan a whole trip. The only time we ask you to sign in is the moment you actually book, because we need to. Everything before that is open, because the point is to be useful, not to trap you.

I'm not trying to disrupt anything. I'm trying to give people back the ten minutes and the little bit of dread that booking a trip takes today, and hand back the part that'sactually fun: deciding to go.

If you try it and it gets something wrong, tell me. I read all of it. Skye is early, and she gets better every week because real people push her.

That's the whole intent. Make finding and booking a trip feel like talking to someone who's got you, and be honest the entire way through.