PackerShack

21/10/2013

Check out our new Detailed Pricing feature!

Our goal is to be the best hostel metasearch/comparision site out there. So we asked ourselves: what is the biggest remaining pain point in hostel booking, and how can we fix it?

08/07/2013

http://packershack.com/blog/infographic-d3-us-obesity

Submitted by Lih Chen on Mon, 07/08/2013 - 15:18Yet another d3.js infographic just for you! A couple weeks ago, the American Medical Association declared obesity a disease. There was a torrent of subsequent news coverage, and blog posts revolved around the subject for days. So, I decided why not fin...

17/06/2013

http://packershack.com/blog/bulk-url-removal-google-webmaster-tools

Submitted by Lih Chen on Mon, 06/17/2013 - 15:05About a month ago, I finally pulled the trigger to ditch the #! convention and used pushstate instead to allow major search engines to index our ajax content while keeping our urls nice and purrty. Unfortunately, during this endeavor, I messed up utf-8...

10/06/2013

Check out our very first infographic.

Submitted by Lih Chen on Mon, 06/10/2013 - 16:51I have always meant to play around with data visualization, and in the past a number of people mentioned the d3 javascript library. After working on PackerShack nonstop for the last few months, I really needed something else to tinker with for a little...

02/11/2012

Check out our most recent guest blog post on heathersharmony!

Editor's note: The following is a guest post from Jenny Dickinson and Lih Chen. They're avid backpackers who've been working to develop a better hostel search to ease the process of finding that perfect place to stay. Check out PackerShack.com for your next trip! If you’re interested in

03/09/2012

Yessss.. Another blog post about PackerShack!

While backpacking in Europe can be exciting and rewarding, it can also be a stressful experience. The last thing you want to do is spend too much time in front of a computer, desperately trying to find a place to

10/08/2012

Woo-hoo! First article about PackerShack officially published!! Check it out! (Toward the bottom of the post.)

...PackerShack places a strong emphasis on its map. One of the hardest parts of our hostel search was flipping back and forth between google maps and the hostel booking site... I wish PackerShack had been around when we were planning our trip!

24/06/2012

Lih: I just added another bug.
Jenny: You added a bug? As in, for my debugging pleasure?
Lih: No, I added a bug, as in a task to Pivotal.

17/05/2012

Taken on our trip to Croatia, in Plitvice Lakes National Park