dw5ight

Craigslist is a ton of NLP to figure out common ways to phrase mileage etc... also catch all the mispellings.

We're also experimenting with some structured parsing for the universal dealership parser we alluded to - this means trying to figure out which part of the page has a listing so we dont accidentally report the mileage from a warranty or similar listings lower down the page... turns out to be a fairly tricky problem but its also a ton of fun to work on! Will keep you posted if we start having a ton of success automagically crawling the interweb. Thanks!

wow. we seriously forgot to add Infiniti - will fix tonight, thanks!!!!!!

::facepalm::

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

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!

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 presenting a shitty interface - for things as large and expensive as cars I think the internet could literally track all instances available, allowing a rational decision process behind purchasing sans prioritization of pre-existing distribution channels or advertising budgets

Also will fix the make thing. Thanks!!!

Thanks! I think we'll try to link directly to google geocoding later, but for now I'll definitely add zipcode placeholder text.

As to Craigslist - we'll see? We actually built a pretty robust classification engine that you can run on any html, so we've added about 600 dealerships in California and are planning on running the crawler on dealerships nationally soon if we can get more server money. I think we're hoping that if we provide a free service where you can see what better deals Craigslist has compared to Autotrader etc people will generally think its cool instead of lame. Thanks for checking us out!

shoot - yeah, we were sort of undecided on how to do this. Would you prefer a full tab in the browser or a tab within the webpage to see the car details? Obviously our current bootstrap modal isn't capable of this, but once we've added some pricing statistics we're going to shift to probably one of the above formats. Thanks for the feedback!

Hey all - we built this because we really like buying off craigslist vs dealerships. Its still pretty new but we'd love to know how we could make it better, so any and all comments are much appreciated. Thanks!

I'd be surprised if traffic is bad at 8am. That said, the BART station is a 10 minute walk from SUS and would make it pretty easy to hit up the Berkeley afterparty and still get home ...