Projects · Mar 2026

Outlier

Catches underpriced flights before they're fixed.

What it is

Spotting a cheap flight is easy; knowing whether it's actually abnormal is the hard part. Outlier watches the routes you pick and scans fares for abnormal pricing using a comparative scoring model — every offer is measured only against genuinely similar ones, same cabin, trip type and booking window, so economy never gets compared to business.

When something comes in unusually low it tells you why it scored that way, and what pulled the score down: too few data points, a stale offer, a hidden self-transfer. It pulls from airline APIs on a slow schedule rather than scraping.

How it works

  • Like-for-like scoring

    Offers are compared only against genuinely similar ones — same cabin, trip type and booking window — so economy never gets measured against business.

  • It shows its work

    Every alert explains the score, including what weakened it: thin data, a stale offer, or a hidden self-transfer.

  • APIs, not scraping

    Fares come from airline APIs on a deliberately slow schedule instead of scraped pages.

Built with

TypeScript · Next.js · Prisma · PostgreSQL · Amadeus / Duffel

· Data / full-stack web application — built by Musa Alanssari, a software engineer in Houston, Texas. Mar 2026.