eight years, one niche
we did not arrive as a vendor. we were the engineers inside, next to the people whose money was on the lot. which stage the storage clock starts at, what happens when two of your users want the same car: none of it is in a specification.
The route so far
Year one · foundation
The architecture, the backend and the bots the rest still stands on.
Year two · the extension
An extension on the lot pages: numbers stopped living in a second window.
Year three · a wider map
Canadian auctions, same flow, same records. No new status model to learn.
Year four · on the road
iOS and Android, because a sale does not wait for office hours.
Year five · cabinets
Dealer cabinets: accounts, documents and statuses in one place.
Years six to seven · inventory
Sites with live bidding and catalogs: a dealer’s own inventory, under his own brand.
Now · the whole ecosystem
Full platforms and API integrations, built from every module on the shelf.
Next · AI damage assessment
A repair estimate read off the lot’s photos, before anyone has seen the car.
The status model has its stages because we watched each one go wrong in person.
Eight years in this one niche, on six auction platforms across three countries.
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