I built a private car sales search engine. Feedback appreciated
hiddenrides.com
hiddenrides.com
Few design notes that I think would spruce it up a bit:
1. Search: Enter keyword(s) - on my default window it was cut-off slightly. I think you can drop the "Enter"
2. Min/Max Price/Miles is the same issue. Since its under Price and Miles you should consider just using min/max
3. Date(newest) drop the date. With newest/oldest/... date is implied
4. Not a huge fan of the banner color/fade. I think a more flat color would make it look less template-y
5. I noticed the source is various forums. Some people may want to filter on the forum type, but if there are too many I would understand a filter may be impractical
6. When you select something from a drop-down it should automatically update the search
7. Make your About Us less generic. It feels very anonymous. I understand if you may not want to share your name but consider sharing more information. Like who is us? How many people are working on it? When was it built? Where are you based? If it felt more personal, people would be more likely to give their email. Also more information about what the newsletter looks like, how often and an assurance that emails will not be sold.
Hidden Rides about us:
> About Hidden Rides 100% Free Started by car enthusiasts for car enthusiasts. We felt the pain of combing through forum threads to find gems that we would have never found otherwise spending hours every week checking up on the newest listings. Everyday, Hidden Rides aggregates classified listings from auto enthusiast forums so you can easily browse the secondary market of peer-to-peer car sales. Questions/comments/concerns? Contact us.
1-4, 6: noted, will keep in mind for the next update.
5: yeah i have been asked this a few times as well, we are pulling from a growing list (200+ forums), so might not be the most user friendly. I think brand/manufacturer works as a proxy.
7. did not spend too much time on the copy, but maybe now its time to update! great suggestions, will definitely adjust.
The mileage is displayed as the price and the price as mileage.
Given this plus local dealerships I don't imagine that I would ever use a disruptor's product due to the basically 100% relevant market penetration and strong history of continued success of KSL's site.
- Some states are big, some are small, distance from ZIP code would be more practical than just state.
- Would do some monitoring of the hit rate of some of the UI features to see if they're actually useful. (i.e Will someone really ever want to specify a filter for minimum number of miles, or do sort by the higher number of miles)
i think the user created his profile in 2007. listing is from today.
thanks for the cali example, yes, that does not sound right to me. i think ill have to expand the scope of the sources to include more "affordables" (under 10k). the sweet spot is really in the 15k-50k range.
Bonus if you do machine learning on pictures of manuals and automatically flag idiot dealers who list automatic as manual.
Let me search by year.
How are you populating the data? are you scraping forums and grabbing pictures or curating it manually?
tough thing at this point is gauging demand but as long as i keep getting the ask - something to consider