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Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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Finally a used car search service that makes sense. Though it needs a way to bookmark search results. Great job regardless.

I think padmapper's two-tiered approach of allowing one unauthenticated and then authenticated use for access to bookmark and sharing features is elegant, and doesn't annoy people who just want to check the site out or use it lightly.

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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Yeah, this is totally true. I think we'll be adding a notification system with saved searches soon, but we wanted to see if anyone liked the idea at all first. Also with the 14 days thing - we're trying to build something that can crawl dealership websites as well, and are hoping to have this going nationally sometime soon. The entire idea is that Autotrader sucks and basically raises the prices for everyone while pr…

Before you do much crawling of car dealer websites, you should talk to the companies who build the sites. (Dealer.com/Vinsolutions..etc) They have systems in place that package up the car listings for their dealers and send them in csv/xml format to many sites like Autotrader/Cars.com on a daily basis.

no kidding?! That would make my life soooooooo much easier. If you have any contacts would be stoked to make the connection - my email is dw5ight@gmail.com, else I'll shoot them a line and see if anyone wants to talk to two guys in an apartment :P Thanks!

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

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I like it. I'm located in Canada and when I put in my canadian zip code first just to get back to the main page again. You should give a notification when someone enters in a zip code you no longer support instead of failing silently.

yeah, that's a major fail on our part. I'll add a notification that only USA is currently supported - thanks for the feedback I honestly hadn't even thought about international stuff yet :P

Re: Show HN: Craigslist Car Search

#59
Very cool. What's the software stack behind this? How are you performing searches across all this very diverse data? For example, you must be doing some sort of text-analysis to retrieve the mileage property out of the text, no?
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