Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by funkah » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:33 PM UTC

This is great! I am in the used market at the moment. But, I am not looking for one specific make and model of car. I am trying to spend 4k or less and I have some parameters like mileage, must have a clean title, etc. So, the search experience is a bit too rigid -- most places where I can select one, I'd like to select many. But the results display is way, way better than anything I have used.

Lastly, I feel like a lot of cars (at least in the price range I'm looking) are sold on craigslist, which isn't used as a source here, for good reason I'm sure.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by timmaah » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:34 PM UTC

Nice work.

My suggestion would be the ability to add a simple tag next to each vehicle. I could then scan the vehicles and mark which ones are off the list or I should follow up on.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

#23

Post by squarecat » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:35 PM UTC

swombat wrote: post #11

Maro wrote: post #9

The "X is the Y for Z" line only works if Y is really popular and the whole analogy is easy to get. In this case, I don't know what Hipmunk is...

Most people here do know what Hipmunk is, I think. Hint: http://www.hipmunk.com/

Do I have to go figure out what Hipmunk is the _____ of to understand it too?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by PonyGumbo » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:40 PM UTC

Really neat interface, but all of the cars I clicked were no longer available.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by squarecat » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

What's the reason for not offering more scope limiters?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by earlyriser » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:55 PM UTC

This is really great. As a suggestion I would put the prices rows (From 8K, 12K etc) outside of the grid and the grid will just contain information of the current car, being easier to eye scan. X axis: Kms/miles Y axis: Price For the tooltips saying ("14 cars that are worse..") that could be on the right side. But not sure about this one.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by tomandersen » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 5:58 PM UTC

In canada auto trader rules: they seem to have every car for sale listed, both by dealers and private. Its nice to only go to one place, but will these data owners pull out on you?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by gourneau » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 6:06 PM UTC

What is the hipmunk for car insurance again?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by Nat0 » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 6:11 PM UTC

This really distills the car search information down to exactly what I want. Presented in such a way to where I get a feel for what the meta trends are, as well as the best/worst deals (or other anomalies). Very nicely presented!

Feature Requests:

- The ability to search for sub car models (Subaru Forester XT vs Subaru Forester), it looks like some higher end models might be filtered as worse deals at the moment.

- It would also be nice to have a free text field to search for other misc specific car features in the listings.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance is the Hipmunk for Used Car Searches

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Post by kapgoals » Thu, Jan 19, 2012, 6:14 PM UTC

funkah wrote: post #21

This is great! I am in the used market at the moment. But, I am not looking for one specific make and model of car. I am trying to spend 4k or less and I have some parameters like mileage, must have a clean title, etc. So, the search experience is a bit too rigid -- most places where I can select one, I'd like to select many. But the results display is way, way better than anything I have used. Lastly, I feel like a…

We are definitely going to tweak the interface to give the user more freedom to do exactly what they want. What we've launched here is definitely an MVP, there are a number of really great features that we're working on but didn't feel ready to implement them at this point.

As for sources, we are definitely going to expand a lot; we felt that what we have now was sufficient for launching.