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porsche959

07-27-2018 07:36 AM

I built a private car sales search engine (Z' included of course)

Hi all, so I wanted to share: https://hiddenrides.com/.

This is a side 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!

achampagne

07-27-2018 07:50 AM

I just spent some time navigating it. Its extremely stream lined and simple. I love how it pulls from all sorts website and drops it there. Most of the cars i saw i'd guess aren't on many of the main websites. Good job!

Does the website automatically search other websites to pull car listings, or do you/the car owner have to list them manually?

porsche959

07-27-2018 07:54 AM

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Originally Posted by achampagne (Post 10965556)

Thanks for checking it out.

Its pulling automatically from the forums (took alot of time building out the software). if you click the pictures, it just outlinks you to the forum/source.

bealljk

07-27-2018 10:46 AM

I could totally see myself surfing the site for hours and hours ... good work

philliesfan1992

07-27-2018 05:06 PM

I like this.. how long would you say it took you to build? I notice you said it’s a hobby but do you think you could monetize it at some point?

LexD	07-27-2018 07:17 PM

I hope you have taken steps to protect the IP. This is a wonderful idea.

porsche959

07-28-2018 06:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bealljk (Post 10965574)

I could totally see myself surfing the site for hours and hours ... good work

thanks!

porsche959

07-28-2018 06:30 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by philliesfan1992 (Post 10965589)

I like this.. how long would you say it took you to build? I notice you said it’s a hobby but do you think you could monetize it at some point?

hey - it took a couple months to get started, between the source collection, actual work, building scraper code, designing website, etc...

at this point i'm focused on building out the tool versus monitization.

maybe in the future, but just glad people are enjoying the product atm.

jv350z

07-28-2018 01:05 PM

Nice work!

...this is going to eat up a lot of my free time.

Gs_350z

07-29-2018 06:52 PM

Very nice layout and easy navigation. Congrats!

M@_	07-31-2018 08:10 PM

Dude... I'm actually pretty impressed with this. Flipping awesome.

Rc_velox

08-01-2018 04:04 AM

Wow, really cool! This will make parting with my money much easier.

achampagne

08-01-2018 07:23 AM

Have you considered affiliate marketing?

Franknbeans

08-09-2018 05:51 PM

just decided to click on this.. props to you. it's great

Desert Z

08-27-2018 09:11 AM

*sigh* more daydreaming here I come.

coop3422

09-04-2018 02:08 PM

Does it have beef with searching in Canada? Seems to pull no results when I choose that as the location. Otherwise, looks awesome!

porsche959

09-06-2018 05:23 AM

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Originally Posted by coop3422 (Post 10970790)

Does it have beef with searching in Canada? Seems to pull no results when I choose that as the location. Otherwise, looks awesome!

Ha - no beef with Canada :)

There are a few Canadian listings on there, but theres just not enough forum classifieds supply.

porsche959

09-06-2018 05:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Desert Z (Post 10969779)

*sigh* more daydreaming here I come.

you might not know it, but if you are on the forums, you are subconsciously day dreaming...

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