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Show HN: Sealistings – The Zillow/Trulia/Realtor of Boats?
- captaintaylor 7y agoHey All! Long time lurker here. I doubt there is a ton of interest on hn for this sort of thing, but my buddy and I have grown up in the boating community due to our location from the water. The roots of the boating industry are very very interesting. It turns out that boating is basically just an American passion. There are some crazy statistics saying that most boats are made and used in the USA. Long story short, we decided the avenues to search for used boats on the internet were very bleak, so we created a marketplace of our own! We would like to eventually work on it full-time, but have absolutely no idea how we could monetize this without annoying ads. Any criticisms are welcome. Stack: Rails + VueJS on Heroku We recently also launched basic React Native Webviews of our app using Expo. It seems to work pretty well, except that the limitations with Expo and React Native become really apparent really quickly haha. Even if we never monetize and this never takes off, it was a pretty cool personal project to work on.
- captaintaylor 7y agoPS Did you know 1 in 10 households in the US own a boat? I really didn't think it was THAT popular.