Tim Rogers

I'm a product manager and software engineer based in London 🇬🇧, working at GitHub .

I founded and sold my own startup, Reward Flight Finder, and helped to build two Y Combinator Top Companies from the ground up: GoCardless and Duffel.

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Reward Flight Finder

2017 - 2020

Technologies: Ruby, PostgreSQL, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Node.js, and React

Reward Flight Finder (formerly BA Redemption Finder) makes it it easy to get the most value from your British Airways Avios points.

I came up with the idea for this product, and then built it and marketed it from scratch. I grew it to 10,000 paying customers, and then sold the business in early 2020.

Millions of people around the world collect hundreds of billions of Avios each year. But when you’re ready to spend your miles on flights, things can get a little difficult:

The best redemptions are very difficult to get, so you’ll need to be checking every day (or more!): The most popular seats disappear very quickly. Airlines can release seats at any time of day or night, so to get those perfect dates, you’ll need to check many times a day.
If you’re flexible, there’s no easy way to see what’s available: Airline websites assume you know where you want to go and when. You can't easily see what dates are available for a particular route, or where you could fly on a particular date.

Reward Flight Finder solves both of these problems:

When you know where you want to go, it shows you all of the availability on a single page, and can send you alerts as soon as seats become available
When you don't know where you want to go, it shows you everything that's available on a map

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