On: Find the lowest airfare (and have fun doing it) [Tripeedo - YC 08]

[jbrun]

Is the parsing algorithm for the location and date proprietary or is it based on something existing? If so, what?

[ngrandy → jbrun]

it's custom built. the site is rails hosted on heroku. ruby already had some decent time/date parsing, and there is a great natural language time/date library called chronic that helps out too. but otherwise it's custom-built.