Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by aspyct » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:42 AM UTC

thorlon wrote: post #10

aspyct wrote: post #9

Nice! Might need to buy a car soon, so that's handy! A few comments: - maybe add somes weights to the questions? For example it's more important that the rear view mirrors are properly attached than having no stain on the upholstery. - some questions deserve more details. "After revving the vehicle in neutral...", am I supposed to rev it for long? Other than that... Thanks! Looks pretty good :) Nitpick on the price:…

Amazing feedback! Thanks so much. I will adjust the prices. It was a guess :)

Not saying you _have_ to lower the price, maybe I'm just a cheap bastard ;) You know what you need out of it.

EDIT: actually I just noticed it was cheaper through the "unlimited" option. Maybe a simpler/clearer pricing would do :)

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by gnicholas » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:52 AM UTC

For the roadmap, maybe make it a separate page where people can vote on what feature enhancements they want. That way you don’t broadcast that the app isn’t fully built, and you gather feedback regarding which features are most popular.

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by rrr_oh_man » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:56 AM UTC

That’s really neat!

How do you tackle the issue that it’s a high intensity, but low frequency problem?

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by szundi » Mon, May 13, 2024, 6:59 AM UTC

hnlmorg wrote: post #7

Personally I’d remove the roadmap from your landing page. The project is either ready for consumption or it isn’t. Either way, you can still have a mail sign up with a massage like “more features are on our way, sign up to keep up to date” (or similar). By all means have a roadmap elsewhere, but the landing my page is for selling your project rather then telling people what your project currently cannot do.

Seconded, feels unready

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by sagasu007 » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:29 AM UTC

It would be even better if there was a pure web version

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by Onavo » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:34 AM UTC

Very cool, if you own a tesla, there's also

https://teslaprep.glideapp.io

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by noduerme » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:51 AM UTC

aspyct wrote: post #9

Nice! Might need to buy a car soon, so that's handy! A few comments: - maybe add somes weights to the questions? For example it's more important that the rear view mirrors are properly attached than having no stain on the upholstery. - some questions deserve more details. "After revving the vehicle in neutral...", am I supposed to rev it for long? Other than that... Thanks! Looks pretty good :) Nitpick on the price:…

I hang out with a lot of car guys. I have a friend who swears by the idea that whenever he wants to buy a used car, after a test drive he'll just leave it idling for an hour. If nothing goes wrong by that point he'll buy it.

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by noduerme » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:54 AM UTC

rrr_oh_man wrote: post #13

That’s really neat! How do you tackle the issue that it’s a high intensity, but low frequency problem?

Some people trade used cars pretty frequently and already have a mental checklist. I could see this still being useful because it's easy to get focused on one thing and miss something else.

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by lnsru » Mon, May 13, 2024, 7:55 AM UTC

I didn’t check the proposition. But is there a problem for this solution? Every car brand has an online community for every model. Every community has a forum and checklist with all the possible problems. Also most people know some car guy to ask the basics.

Re: Show HN: CarCheck – Car Buying Checklist App

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Post by jiehong » Mon, May 13, 2024, 8:05 AM UTC

lnsru wrote: post #19

I didn’t check the proposition. But is there a problem for this solution? Every car brand has an online community for every model. Every community has a forum and checklist with all the possible problems. Also most people know some car guy to ask the basics.

I think it’s fair to have generic points to check for a car. Maybe later they’ll add sub lists for each car model/make?

From my experience, not knowing anything about cars and what basic things to look for, forums seemed not that great and the “top 10 things to look for” kind of articles either.

I ended up asking chatGPT, and turns out it seems to know exactly about the model I was looking at and I then crossed check if the commons problems were real online.