I built a forum car search engine
08-26-2018, 12:21 PM
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I built a forum car search engine
Hi all, so I wanted to share: hiddenrides.com
This is a project/hobby for me - mainly because I enjoy browsing various car forums to see what cars I can afford at any given time.
Shared this on a few other forums and got positive feedback so thought i'd spread the love.
Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated!
This is a project/hobby for me - mainly because I enjoy browsing various car forums to see what cars I can afford at any given time.
Shared this on a few other forums and got positive feedback so thought i'd spread the love.
Any thoughts/feedback would be appreciated!
08-26-2018, 12:38 PM
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Three Wheelin'
This is very cool - I totally dig it. Thanks for creating a great resource! Another website that I can use to spend/waste time on during the work day!
08-26-2018, 09:39 PM
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Very nice - Good tool!
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let me know if you would like to see additional features, other foums, etc
09-14-2018, 06:44 PM
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Three Wheelin'
@porsche959 - awesome job for a hobby project. Well done! Your site caused me to spend far too much time browsing for air cooled cars over the past 2 weeks. Love to chat with you more about it. Assuming you built crawler templates for each site?
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
Last edited by TheBruce; 09-14-2018 at 07:00 PM.
09-14-2018, 09:00 PM
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@porsche959 - awesome job for a hobby project. Well done! Your site caused me to spend far too much time browsing for air cooled cars over the past 2 weeks. Love to chat with you more about it. Assuming you built crawler templates for each site?
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
All great ideas above... Plus...
- I'd add Hemmings
- A distance from location... Eg when I travel sometimes I see what might be near me
- Need some of the other common attributes... Eg body style, color, Private seller vs dealer
09-17-2018, 11:18 AM
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@porsche959 - awesome job for a hobby project. Well done! Your site caused me to spend far too much time browsing for air cooled cars over the past 2 weeks. Love to chat with you more about it. Assuming you built crawler templates for each site?
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
Additional comments:
- Anyway to add PCA.org classifieds? Their UX is painful.
- Assuming craigslist wouldn't look kindly on a crawler? That would be very useful to pull in.
- great work on the email notification feature. simple and useful.
- I saw your post that 911s were the most heavily searched, followed by corvettes, etc. I think your audience is clearly enthusiasts so I would gear it that way.
- You could create predefined search facets for each model e.g. for 911's long hoods, g-bodies, 964, 993, 996, 997, etc. Likely the same for other brands.
- I think you should go beyond forums and pull in autotrader classics, etc. That would make this the one stop shop for enthusiasts. I hit 4-5 sites with varying regularity. Its a pain.
- I would love to have a site like this that has my saved searches listed as facets along the left menu. Each would have a notification next to it on the number of updates since my last visit. After you select the saved search in the left pane you scan hits in the right pane. Makes it fast to browse.
- As this is for enthusiasts you could think about creating an analytics overlay: distribution of prices, miles, colors, avg price by mileage, etc. This could be a premium feature you pay for.
Lots you can do with this so keep up the great work!
we recently added bmw club - I think Porsche club layout is similar. working on it. will look into Autotrader classics
craigslist is a scrape blocking god - at this point, barring the hire of a hacker or a genius, its impossible to reliably track craigslist posts unfortunately
data analysis is interesting (I had a similar idea myself - average listing price, etc - wasn't sure about demand though).
09-17-2018, 08:04 PM
#15
Three Wheelin'
Very cool! I was just browsing through there and saw 911's that were long gone, (saw voodoo's 997 C2S as one example). I know there isn't much that you can do to that since the seller never updated their listing.