Boat listing search like Autotempest for boats feedback

[WavetoWave]

Hey everyone,
I have a boat search site that I started with a friend who is a student and he's learning to code. Our inspiration was Autotempest, an automotive listing aggregator which allows you to browse listings from the top listing sites.

At the moment, we've been able to scrape from 12 boat listing sites, which means there's about 250,000+ listings for you to browse.

I would love some feedback on what you like, what you hate, what needs work, etc...

As our coding skills improve, hopefully so will the site. At the moment, its fairly basic (not to many search parameters) but it seems to work pretty well. Plus, there is a boat valuation tool.

Thanks, Jared

Keen2boat

 

[wzuber]

I'm not familiar with these type sites so please excuse my stupid questions......Can I list directly with your site and skip all the individual sites?
If doing that will my listings also integrate back into those sites or only be connected when listed with the individual sales sites? TIA

 

[85RiverRAT]

Looks good!

Add Facebook Marketplace, and there are several Instagram sellers too that could be searched as well.

I tried "Hallett", and there is at least a half dozen more boats that could be listed.

I like the CarGurus interface, the search, and filters are pretty accurate, and both the web and app are user-friendly.

A general issue I see all the time is when sellers misspell things, and the SEO misses the ad because the description is terrible. Maybe there is a way to code 1-2 alternates for common misspellings, to bring up the garbage ads. Often times boat/car is actually a pretty good buy.

 

[WavetoWave]

I'm not familiar with these type sites so please excuse my stupid questions......Can I list directly with your site and skip all the individual sites?
If doing that will my listings also integrate back into those sites or only be connected when listed with the individual sales sites? TIA

Thanks for the question, no we pull the listings from those sites, so you can't list directly with keen2boat.

 

[WavetoWave]

Looks good!

Add Facebook Marketplace, and there are several Instagram sellers too that could be searched as well.

I tried "Hallett", and there is at least a half dozen more boats that could be listed.

I like the CarGurus interface, the search, and filters are pretty accurate, and both the web and app are user-friendly.

A general issue I see all the time is when sellers misspell things, and the SEO misses the ad because the description is terrible. Maybe there is a way to code 1-2 alternates for common misspellings, to bring up the garbage ads. Often times boat/car is actually a pretty good buy.

Great suggestions, thanks. We are working on marketplace and others.