CarHunter: car deal monitoring straight to WhatsApp
Finding a good car means clicking through dozens of listings every day before the best ones are gone. CarHunter scans listings itself, scores the deals and twice a day sends a short, ranked list straight to WhatsApp.
Industry: Automation, listings monitoring
In short
- Automatic scan of car listings
- Each item with price, mileage, location and a score
- A short, ranked digest twice a day
- It all lands where you already look: on WhatsApp
About the project
To catch a good car you have to keep returning to listing sites and manually compare prices, mileage and locations. The best offers disappear within hours, so they are easy to miss.
The challenge
The task was to take manual browsing off the person and leave only the decision: you look at a ready short list of the best deals instead of digging through every listing.
Goals
- Stop browsing listings by hand every day
- Score deals consistently, by the same measure
- Get only a short list of the best hits
- Have it in a channel that is already at hand
Technical challenges
Deal scoring
Each listing gets a score based on price, mileage and other features, so real deals are on top, not random entries.
Short and clear
The digest is concise: model, year, price, mileage, location, score and link, so you can judge a hit in seconds.
Solution and implementation
A robot browses for you
The automation gathers new listings itself and scores them by a consistent measure, without checking several sites.
A ready list on WhatsApp
Twice a day a short, ranked list of the best hits with links arrives straight to WhatsApp.
Results
No more clicking through
Instead of browsing listings every day, you look at a ready list of deals and decide.
Deals do not slip away
New hits arrive regularly, so you catch good offers before they are gone.
Takeaways
Push instead of searching
The value is that the information comes to you, ranked, rather than you going to look for it.
WhatsApp is a good channel
A notification where you already look actually gets read, unlike yet another dashboard.
Scope
- Listings monitoring
- Deal scoring
- WhatsApp digest
- Twice a day
Technologies
- Automation
- Scoring
Frequently asked questions
Where do the listings come from?
The automation scans car listing sites and gathers new items matching the criteria.
How are the best deals chosen?
Each listing gets a score based on price, mileage and other features, and the highest scored are at the top.
How often does the list arrive?
Twice a day, as a short, ranked digest with links to the listings.
Why WhatsApp?
Because it is a channel you already check, so notifications actually get read rather than buried in email.
Can it be tuned to other criteria?
Yes. Criteria, brands and thresholds can be matched to exactly what you are looking for.