We built SnagRid because the trip we needed didn't fit a form.

A year ago I needed a trip that, written out, sounded simple: Tel Aviv to France for 24 hours, then New York for a few days, then home — back in Netanya by Tuesday at noon to pick up my kid from school. Two adults, two kids, no travel on Shabbos, and a hard deadline on the back end.

I opened Kayak. Then Google Flights. Then back to Kayak. I tried Paris first, then New York first. I tried CDG and ORY. I tried EWR instead of JFK. I tried leaving a day earlier and a day later. I'd find a cheap leg, lose it switching the next leg, get a better total, then realize it landed me back in Tel Aviv on Shabbos. Fifty searches in, I had a headache and no confidence I'd actually found the cheapest valid trip.

That's the moment SnagRid started. The information was all there — live availability, real fares, real hotel inventory. The missing piece was an engine that could enumerate the permutations a human won't, hold the constraints a human cares about, and rank the survivors. Not another search box. A search engine that does the searching for you.