We Built a Marketplace for Auto Enthusiasts
We just launched www.styckyd.com, a marketplace for automotive enthusiasts to buy and sell parts. We're trying to tackle a number of problems that users experience when trying to buy and sell parts on automotive forums or on eBay Motors. Search, and shipping come to mind. Because of the nature of search on either of these sites it's difficult to provide relevant results, sellers have to think like SEO experts and buyers have to try multiple searches over multiple days so they can connect. I'm sure most people don't ship packages every day so figuring out how much to charge for shipping can…
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We just launched www.styckyd.com, a marketplace for automotive enthusiasts to buy and sell parts. We're trying to tackle a number of problems that users experience when trying to buy and sell parts on automotive forums or on eBay Motors. Search, and shipping come to mind. Because of the nature of search on either of these sites it's difficult to provide relevant results, sellers have to think like SEO experts and buyers have to try multiple searches over multiple days so they can connect. I'm sure most people don't ship packages every day so figuring out how much to charge for shipping can also be a problem. There are more problems that we're trying to solve but I'm hoping to get some feedback from HN. We've spent most of our time on some of the things you won't see unless you list a part (If you have something to sell, try us out!) as a result the rest of the site is not perfect (Well, neither is the stuff we spent most of our time on... yet). To avoid a bit of the forrest through the trees problem we're looking for feedback on these things: 1) When you look at the site, does it make sense what we do and how we can help? 2) Can you easily identify why we're better than the rest - I'm guessing that's not the case yet, any suggestions on how we can improve here? 3) Is there anything that just seems like a no-go? We've also built a plugin for vBulletin - we want to replace/improve their classifieds systems: partners.styckyd.com If any other feedback comes to mind, please share. We're really driven to make this work so the more we hear, the better. ps. Are there any other car nuts on HN?
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