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Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#21

Post by AdleyEskridge »

Awesome! This is ridiculously better than Craigslist.

A quick heads-up: Using the parameters provided in the HN link, a number of the listings are dead, including:

http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?listingId=86102429

http://www.web2carz.com/68535832/2008/acura/tl/used-cars/for...

http://www.web2carz.com/68335253/2005/acura/tl/used-cars/for...

Will these be purged periodically?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#22

Post by kapgoals »

AdleyEskridge wrote: post #21

Awesome! This is ridiculously better than Craigslist. A quick heads-up: Using the parameters provided in the HN link, a number of the listings are dead, including: http://www.cars.com/go/search/detail.jsp?listingId=86102429 http://www.web2carz.com/68535832/2008/acura/tl/used-cars/for... http://www.web2carz.com/68335253/2005/acura/tl/used-cars/for... Will these be purged periodically?

Well, our scrapers take about 2-3 days to complete a loop, so it is indeed possible for you to find dead links here and there...It shouldn't be a large percentage though.

Fortunately, we will have API's from two major source sites within the next few weeks, and that should greatly reduce our dependence on scraping.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#23

Post by artursapek »

dangrossman wrote: post #16
spicyj wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I know exactly what Hipmunk is, but I have no idea what "Hipmunk for cars" is.

I don't know why you were downvoted for expressing this thought. I had the same one.

I see it. It's a strongly intuitive visual search for used cars, as opposed to airplane tickets.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#24

Post by dangrossman »

artursapek wrote: post #23
dangrossman wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know why you were downvoted for expressing this thought. I had the same one.

I see it. It's a strongly intuitive visual search for used cars, as opposed to airplane tickets.

The point of these "X for Y" little slogans is to elucidate what the site does by analogy. When I think Hipmunk, I think flight scheduling. There is no equivalent for cars, and this is not a car scheduling anything. Thus the "Hipmunk for Cars" line just left me confused... it failed at its purpose and shouldn't be used as it's not a clear analogy.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#25

Post by yesimahuman »

Great work, I think this is going to be something special. Congrats on the launch!

Quick things: it'd be nice to have a "tweet" button rather than a follow so I can tweet about it! Also I find the top of the page a bit cluttered. It'd be nice to move the "Generation Images" to a more discrete place since it feels odd there and I didn't know what it meant at first.

Other than that, great work, I'm excited to use this in the future!

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#26

Post by aik »

Pretty cool. One point that makes it less "Hipmunky" to me is the fact that for a new search I need to select a maker/model from a dropdown (there's no other option). Feels like an artifact from the past in this case. Why not just have a single autocomplete search box?

e.g. I just want to type in "Rabbit" and see the VW Rabbit results instantly.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#27

Post by kapgoals »

aik wrote: post #26

Pretty cool. One point that makes it less "Hipmunky" to me is the fact that for a new search I need to select a maker/model from a dropdown (there's no other option). Feels like an artifact from the past in this case. Why not just have a single autocomplete search box? e.g. I just want to type in "Rabbit" and see the VW Rabbit results instantly.

Good point, this seems to be the trend for a number of newer car sites, we will probably ditch the make/model dropdowns soon as well.

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#28

Post by mgallivan »

kapkapkap wrote: post #5
fudged wrote: post #2

Sweet! This looks really useful. Hope to see support for Canada!

Thanks! You certainly aren't the first person to request Canadian support, its definitly on our list of things to investigate.

Is the largest barrier a matter of finding reliable sources?

Re: Show HN: AutoGlance

#29

Post by Poiesis »

ktsmith wrote: post #19
kapkapkap wrote: post #4

Hey I'm the co-founder of AutoGlance. Any feedback / comments / suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I've done three searches now and have noticed that when I click "see listing" most of the links are invalid. Filtering to 100 miles in distance still returns results that are significantly more than 100 miles away (results from IL when using a CA zip code). It's interesting for a new site but not that useful for searching for vehicles yet as it probably needs more filters. For example, searching for a Ford F-150 retu…

Yup, and sometimes particular option are the biggest part of the deal. I'm currently looking for cars that can sear 6+ passengers. Usually I see this as "third row seat". Don't seem to have that option.

Also, the min-max sliders are a bit tricky on an iPhone.

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