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I just launched http://www.VehicleShare.com - an extremely simple online car show for antique/classic car owners & enthusiasts

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I like the site and agree with most of the comments already here. I don't like the domain name for two reasons.

First, I don't like "vehicle". it's not strictly a car and it's just a non-commercial word in my opinion. Second, "share" makes me think it is a car-sharing service, rather than a picture sharing service.

Then, unrequested advice for monetization!! I think you should let the users add the story of the car (There's the "car blog" button but I am not really sure how that works - maybe it's me, but it's not clear and you should make sure that the website is clear even to the dumbest of your readers).

Then, you might want to add a box "for sale Y/N" and if yes, the yes is clickable and you can then start an auction or put the two parts in contact... and get a little cut of the transaction.

Not the first person to bring up the domain issue, I might have to consider rebranding the site

The for sale option feature is currently in development, will hopefully launch next month!!

Also, since you think of rebranding... have you narrowed down to a smaller niche?

Yes car fanatics like all kind of cars, but you might create better, tighter communities if you selected one (and eventually replicate) niches: modders/racers could have some car porn to look at, antiques/american classics too but are very different than the fast&furious crowd...

It would help you get a better identity (just my 2 cents)

As a future feature, it would be nice to be able to specify year ranges, like 1967-1969 along with model, say Camaro, in addition to just the make. Kind of like eBay motors search tool.

Cool idea, any ideas on how to approach that development wise? Is it possible to create a year drop down menu that can select more than 1 year at a time?

There are a couple different ways to do it. One example as I mentioned would be like eBay's search [1], where the parameters are input by text. Another good example I've seen is on the KSL Classifieds car search website [2]. There it's a single drop down, where you can select just one year, or if you input two years, it will become a range.

[1] http://imgur.com/WjkkF [2] http://imgur.com/QutTt

Awesome feedback, thx!!

Beautiful site. I know someone that would love this. How are you going to encourage everyone to post their cars?

Anyone else producing a simple car gallery site or classic cars?

Thx I did all the dev & design, please send over the site to any car enthusiast friends u have.

I'm emailing as many car clubs as possible to try and gain users, currently only a very small % of users are adding cars, any comments on the signup / add car functionality? If ur friend uses the site I would really appreciate his/her feedback

As for competition there are some car galleries out there but none focus on user generated content / car profiles, at most users can send pics in by email ( very lame! )

Thx again!!

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