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Show HN: Carcela – A peer-to-peer used car marketplace in the UK
- theprop 9y agoSimilar models have had a hard time in the U.S. Your website design could be a bit better. The cars at the bottom all look very fake...just 13k pounds for a barely used BMW sportscar??? Makes me think it's dodgy.
- palpatine_an 9y agothe site is very much a work-in-progress, they've let me know that that specific section has been up there as a placeholder in the early development stage but was supposed to be removed. what do you think could improve in regards to website design?
- fiatjaf 9y agoThank you for trying to solve this. But how do you handle the problem of knowing the actual state of the car? If you have some new inventive way you should publicize it more.
- geoah 9y agoNeed a bit of work on mobile, especially the "find how much your car is worth" forms.
- JusticeJuice 9y agoI'm confused as what part of this is peer to peer?
- lotusko 9y agovery simplicity
- lotusko 9y agoyou may refer to some p2p(financial) websites
- CommieBobDole 9y agoSo it's Auto Trader, except all the copy on the site is written in broken English?
- speps 9y agoIt doesn't even have my 2015 model of Golf.
- sibartlett 9y agoThe car selector actually lists car brands and models sold in North America. It's missing a lot of European cars.
- danderino 9y agoDidn't Beepi try this?
- edmundhuber 9y agoFYI, "carcel" means "prison" in spanish.
- jazoom 9y agoWe have a car in Australia called the Pajero and no one cares. I doubt this will be an issue for this UK company.
- ingmaras 9y agoThe postcode validator doesn't work with E1W postcodes, e.g. E1W 1AA.
- palpatine_an 9y agoI will let them know, thank you for your comment
- palpatine_an 9y agoHey peoples, original poster here. I put this up on behalf of one of my mates who is working on it. I'll make sure to pass all the comments you all have to him
- paulshen 9y agoThis looks like it was pulled straight off of Shift. See https://carcela.com/jobs.html https://carcela.com/jobs.html and https://shift.com/careers https://shift.com/careers as well as every other page.
- dylz 9y agoThis seriously looks like a really, really crap 1:1 rip of shift. And intentionally trying to run any non third party JS on page through a free obfuscator, presumably to try and hide it.
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- drcongo 9y agoWent through the 'find out how much your car is worth' forms (which offers only wrong model options) only for it to ask for an email address at the end, which I'm not gonna give. Especially when on AutoTrader it's a two field form and an instant result.
- palpatine_an 9y agowhich make and model is your car? and when you say autotrader has a two-field form, I imagine you mean make and model and then they give you the results for that?
- sibartlett 9y agoThe car selector lists only car brands and models sold in North American. It's totally wrong for the UK market.
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