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Idle Check
Know what you're buying before you show up
Idle Check reads any used car listing and tells you what the seller probably left out. You get failure points specific to that make, model and mileage, repair cost estimates, live NHTSA recall data, and a ready-to-send negotiation script. Paste the listing, get the report in seconds. First 3 findings free, full report $4.99.
Hey Product Hunt. I have bought a few used cars over the years and every single time the seller had a totally reasonable explanation for why they were selling. Every single time I found out the real reason later, usually at a repair shop.
The thing is, almost nobody brings a mechanic with them when they go look at a car. And even if you know cars, the seller has been living with that vehicle for years. They know exactly what it does and does not do. You get a 20 minute test drive and their word for it.
I got tired of it so I built Idle Check. You paste in the listing or the VIN, and it pulls the live NHTSA recall data for that exact vehicle, flags the most common failure points for that make and model and mileage, estimates what repairs would actually cost you, reads the listing text for red flags, and writes you a negotiation script based on what it found.
First three findings are always free. Full report is $4.99, one time, no subscription, no account needed.
Would genuinely love to hear from anyone here who has been through the same thing buying a used car. And if you try it, let me know what you think.
About Idle Check on Product Hunt
“Know what you're buying before you show up”
Idle Check was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #55 on the daily leaderboard. Idle Check reads any used car listing and tells you what the seller probably left out. You get failure points specific to that make, model and mileage, repair cost estimates, live NHTSA recall data, and a ready-to-send negotiation script. Paste the listing, get the report in seconds. First 3 findings free, full report $4.99.
On the analytics side, Idle Check competes within Cars, Artificial Intelligence and Finance — topics that collectively have 485.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Idle Check performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Idle Check?
Idle Check was hunted by Dominik Holesovsky. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Dominik Holesovsky