Because we started LetMeGo from scratch, we were able to create our system with no concern for legacy technology or outmoded standards. Here are a few of the most notable ideas that LetMeGo brings to the lodging industry:

Ours is the first service of its kind that fully embraces AJAX technology, and which is built from the ground up to take advantage of the power and easy extensibility of cloud computing.

Other travel and lodging sites have depended on outdated standards used only by hotels. Our systems were designed so that lodgings of all types, anywhere in the world, would be able to take full advantage of their features.

We hate waiting while a travel service grinds through our requests for thirty seconds or more. We were determined that our search feature wouldn't slow travelers down. We are pleased to note that LetMeGo searches are as quick and responsive as finding a product on Amazon.

The core of LetMeGo is its powerful software engine. We call it "Merrcury".

We started developing Merrcury back in December of 2007, and we constantly tinker with and improve it. We’ve provided a basic overview of the engine below, along with links to our founder, Alexander Torrenegra’s blog, which documents the life and progress of both the LetMeGo project in general, and the Mercurry Engine in particular.

Merrcury Engine Fact Sheet:

• Name: Merrcury Engine
• Development Methodology: RRápido (a custom flavor of Agile Development and the Rational Unified Process)
• Documentation: Approx. 178 detailed use cases and 908 user interfaces
• Architecture: Low-coupling service architecture (distributed in scopes)
• Framework: A customized version of CakePHP and jQuery
• Database Management System: MySQL
• Accessibility: Section 508 Compliant
• Automated Testing: 100% code coverage via ~480 unit test asserts and ~600 acceptance test cases (automated selenium tests)
• Additional Features: Full I18N and L10N, database version control
• Hosting: Amazon Web Services with systems administration and monitoring provided by ServerQuo