Built in Denver, for people who travel.

Fareduck is a product of BlueDuck LLC, a Colorado-registered company based in Denver. BlueDuck's portfolio includes focused, low-overhead software products alongside ongoing consulting work in software and hospitality. Fareduck is the team's flight-deal product, part of the broader BlueDuck umbrella.

We built Fareduck because the existing flight-deal newsletters push the same picks to everyone, and Google Flights makes you do the work yourself. We wanted something that knew your home airport, your travel style, your loyalty status, and could surface 5–8 flights weekly you'd actually take — not just 5–8 of the cheapest fares on the market.

That's the product. The rest of the website explains how it works. The blog has more detail on how we pick deals and why we built the way we did.

Every day at 02:00 UTC, we run a personalised flight search for every active user. The search is bounded by your home airports, the travel persona we summarise from your one-paragraph vibe description, your loyalty status, your budget, and your flexibility on dates. We rank results with a deterministic heuristic scorer first, then optionally polish the top 15 with Gemini 2.5 Flash. On Sunday, we email you a digest with the top 5–8 picks and a one-sentence rationale per deal.

Three streams, in order of revenue share at MVP:

1. Affiliate commissions. When you click “Search this fare,” we route through a partner (Skyscanner, Google Flights, the airline directly). If you book, the partner pays us a small commission. The price you pay is the same as if you went to them directly.
2. Plus subscriptions ($7/mo or $70/yr) — launching when we hit ~100 active users. Adds ad-free emails, daily digests, target-price alerts, unlimited watchlists.
3. Direct sponsorships — labelled Sponsored, always vetted. No third-party ad networks, no behavioural targeting, no data sold to us by other companies. Plus users see zero ads.

Inside our code, the ranking module is structurally forbidden from importing anything from the affiliate, ad, or flight-provider modules — enforced by an ESLint rule that fails the build if violated. We do this because there's no other way to make trust real. The deal we recommend first is not the one that pays us most. It can't be, by design.

You can read more on how we pick deals.

• We don't sell your data.
• We don't boost a deal because the partner pays a higher commission.
• We don't run third-party tracking pixels on our pages.
• We don't sell hotels (BlueDuck LLC also operates hospitality consulting — we avoid the conflict of interest).
• We don't use dark patterns to keep you subscribed — every email has a one-click unsub.

We work with affiliate networks, direct sponsors, and writers covering travel + product. Email hello@mail.fareduck.io with subject “Partnership” or “Press” — see our contact page for more detail.