Hopper
Hopper tells travellers whether to book now or wait. It predicts where a fare is going rather than only showing what it costs today.
About Hopper
Hopper's product answers a question every other travel site leaves to the traveller: not what a flight costs today, but whether it will cost less next week. It builds that from historical fare data, and the recommendation - book now, or wait - is the thing people open the app for. That framing turns a search box into a reason to come back, which is the part of consumer travel most companies never solve. The same prediction now runs across hotels, car hire and packages. The company was founded in April 2007 in Montreal by Frederic Lalonde and Joost Ouwerkerk, both previously executives at Expedia. The gap between that date and the app most people know is not an accident: Hopper spent years on a different product before pivoting, a period the Business Development Bank of Canada has written up as a case study in reaching product-market fit late.