dw5ight

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by dw5ight 15y ago
1. Yeah, pretty much everybody today told us to make tabs work. Going to add for sure 2. Hadn't thought of saving searches (not listings) yet, great idea 3. Damn! My js skills suck, will debug 3. I'll check with Edmunds if they have an API,
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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 fig
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by dw5ight 15y ago
wow. we seriously forgot to add Infiniti - will fix tonight, thanks!!!!!! ::facepalm::
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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 apart
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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 dea
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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 ht
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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
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by dw5ight 15y ago
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!
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by dw5ight 17y ago
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 ...