About
Signect
A curated intelligence publication for design, product, and travel industry professionals.
Why this exists
Generic tech and travel news feeds produce too much noise for product and design teams trying to stay current. A single search for "OTA news" returns coupon roundups, press releases, and duplicate stories — none of which are useful to someone making product decisions.
Signect solves the relevance problem. Every article is classified, scored for relevance (1–10), and enriched with a strategic signal and an industry-level implication before it is published. Low-quality and irrelevant items are excluded before they reach the page.
The editorial standard is simple: if it does not have a meaningful implication for product, design, travel supply, or competitive position — it does not appear.
Content tracks
Competitor Intel
Product moves, experience changes, and strategic signals from Indian OTA and adjacent travel players — MakeMyTrip, Ixigo, EaseMyTrip, Yatra, and global platforms like Airbnb and Booking.com.
Travel Sector
India aviation, hospitality, rail, policy, and tourism updates that affect booking behaviour, supply, customer experience, or product prioritisation.
Design
Design systems, UX research, interaction design, AI tooling for design workflows, and design operations — filtered for relevance to working product design teams, travel and beyond.
Product
Experimentation, product strategy, retention, conversion, and onboarding thinking with direct applicability to travel and consumer product teams.
Editorial standards
Curation score
Every article is scored 1–10 before publishing. The score weights track relevance (40%), entity match (20%), India scope (20%), and source quality (20%). Only items scoring 4 or above are typically published.
Source reliability
Primary — official announcements, regulatory filings, earnings reports. Secondary — credible journalism with named sources (Skift, The Ken, ET). Inferred — analyst estimates or speculative reporting. Reliability is shown on each lead story.
Industry lens
Every article is enriched with an industry-level implication — what the signal means for how OTA and travel platforms compete, or how design and product teams should respond.
Exclusion rules
Always excluded: deal and coupon content, generic listicles, duplicate stories, articles with no meaningful product or business implication, and US-market stories with no India or OTA relevance.
Sources
19 RSS feeds monitored daily, fetched and deduplicated automatically each morning.
Broad travel + tech
Skift
Competitor Intel & India OTA
The Ken, Inc42, Entrackr, YourStory
Travel Sector
ET Aviation, Simple Flying, Aviation Week, Travel And Tour World
Design
HeyDesigner, Sidebar.io, Nielsen Norman Group, Smashing Magazine, A List Apart, UX Collective
Product
Lenny's Newsletter, SVPG, Inside Intercom
How it works
- RSS feeds from 19 curated sources are fetched every morning at 08:30 IST
- New articles are deduplicated against the full published history
- Each article is classified by track, theme, entity, importance, and relevance score
- Approved articles are enriched with summary, strategic signal, and industry lens
- The editor reviews, approves, and publishes — typically within 15 minutes
- Published JSON is committed to the repo and the frontend updates
Not a news aggregator. Editorial decisions reflect relevance to design, product, and travel industry professionals building and running digital travel products.