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I tried to think of something positive to say, but really... if you're marketing yourself as something that doesn't suck and within 2 seconds I think "this site sucks due to lack of understanding about car research", you've failed.
Now you have the challenge of recouping credibility. You launched too soon, you didn't say beta, or even better, alpha which could have saved you.
Give me a comparison site that allows me compare pricing with similar common options. I don't care if the car is priced "from $20k" if adding an automatic and A/C means $25k.
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I would hardly call this an MVP. The site isn't really useable in it's current state. It's a list of cars, with a price and no sorting, filtering, really anything... Even after i click on a car all it does is show me pictures of it... Not even correlated pictures but it looks like you took the first 5 images off Google. Most of them don't even have pictures of the interior.
If you knew how much work went into getting it to this point, you'd probably have a different opinion.
The ultimate tool in this space, which would be an absolute bitch to make and keep up to date, would probably replicate, in a generic way, all the custom "build & price" apps that are on various car manufacturers' websites. It would let you save custom builds of vehicles, each potentially from a completely different vendor, so you could review and compare side-by-side your own custom builds, with pictures, packages, pricing, etc., all arranged in ways that are conducive to comparison. It would be great if you could simply share URLs with friends so they can see exactly what you're considering and give you feedback. Popular builds could be saved publicly and ranked and discussed by the site's community and more.
That is what I would personally envision as a sort of revolutionary tool in this space, but there's probably a reason it doesn't exist. It would be pretty hard to maintain a custom build & price tool that generalizes basically all the custom ones out there--and to then keep it up to date at that.
Lesson learned on the tagline. We've killed the "doesn't suck" part. Thanks, HN!
(manual transmission OR automatic w/ paddle shift) AND (rear-wheel drive OR all-wheel drive) AND (sedan OR coupe)
Sort by options: power to weight ratio OR 1/4th mile time OR price
For a very specific shopper like myself, this sucks. Can't even compare two cars.
- The landing page feels unfinished because most of the page is filled with greyed out icons.
- Once you pick the type of vehicle (cars), you have to navigate through 9 pages of car models. I know that there's a search bar, but it's not what users will see first. Why am I being given an alphabetic listing of cars? You may want to allow users to drill down further by car types, make the search more prominent, and if you have to provide a list of cars, order them by what you think the user will be likely to look at, instead of an alphabetic listing. At the very least, group them by manufacturer.
- Once you pick a car, the information is very sparse. Some pictures, some info about mileage, cost, and then an affiliate link to Edmunds.
The amount of information you get about a car after all that trouble is not even close to what car buyers are looking for. In the end, the only way to do research is to follow the link to Edmunds, so this entire website feels like a way to get affiliate revenue. If you are serious about the website, you may want to provide enough value of your own (Edmunds already makes it fairly easy to browse to the car you want, so that's not a differentiator)
Message to the site owner: Congratulations on fail I tried to think of something positive to say, but really... if you're marketing yourself as something that doesn't suck and within 2 seconds I think "this site sucks due to lack of understanding about car research", you've failed. Now you have the challenge of recouping credibility. You launched too soon, you didn't say beta, or even better, alpha which could have s…