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tommy_mcclung
12y ago
Would have been great, except for it suffers from the same problem the existing VA site suffers from. Almost every time I use the VA site, "something goes wrong". I just tried to book tickets for next week, got all the way to the
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13y ago
Congrats Sam!! Woo!
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13y ago
I'm going to work on writing this up. Lots of reasons and it deserves a detailed post-mortem.
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13y ago
Sure does. Thanks for the feedback!
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Also, if anyone is interested we have an API into this data set. AOL Autos uses it here http://autos.aol.com/best-deal
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Great idea.
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13y ago
There isn't really.
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13y ago
What we're doing is looking at the actual MSRP offered by dealers on vehicles in inventory inclusive of options. On Edmunds, KBB or any other pricing site what you're looking at is what you theoretically would pay if the vehicle y
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13y ago
Good question, looks broken. We will fix it.
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Founder/CEO here. This data is from hundreds of thousands of offers made by dealers on CarWoo! This is likely one of the purest sources of new car pricing anywhere. Would love to answer any questions.
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New Car Pricing Data From Offers On CarWoo
(carwoo.com)
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Your startup as a finely tuned machine
(techceo.posthaven.com)
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Come help us hack the Auto Industry - Designer (CarWoo S09)
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Come help us change car buying forever – CarWoo (YC S09)
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Come help us change car buying forever – CarWoo (YC S09)
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Come help us design a better car buying experience – CarWoo (YC S09)
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Come help us hack the Auto Industry - full stack engineer at CarWoo (YC S09)
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Come help us hack the Auto Industry – full stack engineer – CarWoo (YC S09)
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Come help us hack the Auto Industry - Dealer Sales
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carwoo.com
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Come hack the auto industry at CarWoo - Product Manager (YCS09)
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One other thing I'd like to point out is the laws surrounding dealership advertising and brokering are extremely important to protect the consumer, therefor the scrutiny in the article. We agree with the laws and they do need to be in plac
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15y ago
I'll partially agree with you on this. Car buyers do only buy cars once every few years, but the amount of information available to a car buyer is incredible. You can know exactly what a dealer paid for the vehicle you're about to buy if
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Thought I'd give my $.02 on this. I'm CEO of CarWoo! and we are right in the middle of disrupting the space and you guys are right it is extremely difficult, but it is possible. It's not so much of a disruption as it is an effort to level
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The job I wish I had before I started CarWoo - Marketing Engineer
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Are you a marketer in developer's clothing? (CarWoo YC S09)
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CarWoo (S09) CEO/founder Tommy McClung live on Spreecast 9AM Pacific
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We're using them as well. We like the ability to queue up videos in the player. Has helped conversions. We also found out that the average attention span was just about 20 seconds on a 90 second vid, so we cut it down to 15 seconds. Coo
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Would love to answer any questions people have about Optimizely or the process we use to iterate on our theories.
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Less is more when it comes to homepage design part II
(carwoo.com)
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