I built a private car sales search engine. Feedback appreciated!

Nice work :)

Love the idea mate! As a car fanatic myself, this is something I would definitely use!

Great concept. I tend to just browse these things on a daily basis. I know other car enthusiasts do the same. I wonder if you could somehow monetize that browsing behavior that represents so much of the traffic on sites like these.

Pretty nice concept. It would be cool if you expanded to Craig's List private listings and FB Marketplace listings. That would increase your listings buy a lot. Maybe parlay this into a marketplace of it's own in the future.

Keywords are great. Normally buyers would start with price, and then features like horsepower, 9-speed DCT, or something like that. Disclaimer - used to work in the industry.

Not a car enthusiast per say, just want to say I love the "Boy, this server is taking its dandy time" 😂 great touch.

Hey, if you going to deal with cars, you would like to rent one, so check https://www.economybookings.com/car-rental/north-america/usa-hawaii/honolulu.

Cool website.

How did you build it and how are you hosting it?

just tried searching for an infiniti with less than 45000 miles for less than 30000 dollars in new york, 0 results. is that accurate?

Monetization idea: allow users to set up alerts. Carvana does this with their inventory, but basically the user enters the search criteria for the vehicle they're looking for and then any time a new vehicle matching that criteria becomes available, they get an email alert. You could charge per search/alert or just monthly subscription.

That could also be a useful product to sell to dealerships. A lot of times, dealerships already have relationships with buyers and they are on the lookout for their buyers. Dealers could set up these alerts and pay a monthly subscription.

Awesome site btw!

Awesome concept, and some of these cars are so cheap!! In Portugal cars are WAY more expensive :(

I would highly suggest you change the block where each card is so it's much more readable and limit the number of cars you show per line by about 30% if you want people to browse for long.

Check Google's material design guidelines to get the best cards for this as the gradient to make the text readable is also ruining the picture.

Hope it was useful, cheers and good luck with this ;)

Probably not helpful. but capital one auto had a way to search cars based on payment. It was the most useful feature I've come across in a while.

The email popup was annoying; I'm not sure if many care about staying updated on a search tool. You should add a save search feature that alerts about new cars if you want to collect emails.