Crowdsourced used car pricing database powered by indie builders
Indie hackers building used car pricing tools face prohibitive data sourcing costs and API restrictions from automotive giants like CarGurus.
CrowdCarPrices lets indie hackers contribute and access a shared database of real used car listings scraped ethically or user-submitted. It rewards contributors with credits, providing fresh data without personal scraping costs. Devs query via simple API for pricing, reducing dependency on giants.
Indie hackers and solo developers building used car pricing or automotive data tools
Community-owned data with contribution incentives; fresher than static sources
supportive
Search crowdsourced prices by specs
Upload listings to earn credits
Earn/spend credits on queries
Community moderates submissions
Trend graphs and personal stats
CSV import for contributors
Real-time new data alerts
Auto-clean invalid data
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| text | No | |
| credits_balance | int | No |
| role | text | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| vin | text | Yes |
| price | int | No |
| make | text | No |
| validated | bool | No |
| submitted_at | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| amount | int | No |
| type | text | No |
| timestamp | timestamp | No |
Relationships:
| Column | Type | Nullable |
|---|---|---|
| id | uuid | No |
| user_id | uuid | No |
| credits_spent | int | No |
| query_params | text | No |
Relationships:
/api/listings/searchQuery prices by make/model/etc
/api/listings/submitAdd new listing
/api/credits/balanceCheck credits
/api/validate/:idVote on listing
No bulk
| Month | Users | Conversion | MRR | ARR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month 1 | 40 | 4% | $24 | $288 |
| Month 6 | 250 | 7% | $262 | $3,144 |
Contribute data, get free access – or buy in. Beat the API gatekeepers together.
Share MVP in Indie Hackers Discord; Recruit contributors from auto scraping Twitter threads; Free Pro for first 10 submitters.
Brand trust
No community
Free contrib model
Network effects from user contributions
Indie auto boom + data sharing culture in 2024
Low contributions
Seed with own data, incentives
Spam data
Validation + ML
Success: 30 signups
Success: 20 contribs
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