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Edition №34 · 17–23 Aug 2026

Travel & OTA

Domestic traffic fell 4.8% in July and the two largest carriers took share anyway, to 91.4% between them. That settles where the contest is not. Nobody competes on the seat price in a market shaped like that, so EaseMyTrip now refunds fare drops after you have booked, and Roamiyo skips booking altogether to chase trip planning.

Travel Has Started Weighing AI’s Worth
Uber expands services, ties up with ixigo to launch train ticket booking

9 signals this week · 1 prediction open on The Record

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Design & Product

The obvious solution is usually the one that gets killed. Lovable's first designer launched a 3D Technicolor heart and watched it fall apart at favicon size, then replaced it in two weeks because one person could decide. Cursor's icon set took a year under a constraint nobody would guess from looking at it: 645 legacy codepoints that had to keep resolving, so every redraw was bounded by a reference it could not break.

The Hidden Cost of Bad UX: How Much Revenue Are You Leaving on the Table?
AI-Generated Images Can Perform as Well as Stock Photography

7 signals this week

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Editor’s note

I once spent a long stretch on the obvious version of a problem. It was the sensible answer, the one you could defend in any review. A stakeholder threw the whole thing out. I rebuilt it from scratch, mostly on instinct, and the second version was stranger than anything I would have proposed on my own. Nobody objected. It shipped, and it became one of the key parts of the product. What stays with me is that the safe version was the one that got killed. I had assumed the risk sat in the unconventional idea, and that approval would be the hard part. It was not. Does anyone get good at telling obvious from correct, or does it always take someone outside your own head?

— Paarth

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