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She cared about color, style, etc. My target audience is women 25-40.",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},"2466604","I originally filtered out the vehicles not available in the color, but it was confusing when vehicles popped in and out depending on color. If my vehicle isn't available in red,…",{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Women aged 25-40 car shoppers",[60],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"Advertising-backed; Google ads on the site","commenter",[65],{"id":66,"by":67,"text":68},"2466775","3pt14159","Take out the Google ads. If your goal is to make money then there are ways to do that, but don't throw up ads until you're out of ideas.",{"value":70,"source":49,"evidence":71},"Maker noticed an emotional, color-first pattern while car shopping with his wife",[72],{"id":52,"by":11,"text":53},[],"unknown","beta",{"praise":77,"objections":97,"requests":141,"questions":174,"alternatives":184},[78],{"value":79,"source":63,"evidence":80},"Visual design and photos are beautiful",[81,85,89,93],{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},"2466707","kmfrk","UPDATED: Expanded on the categorization aspect. Your design is absolutely gorgeous, and that's worth visiting the site for alone. The categorization is a little wonky, and while…",{"id":86,"by":87,"text":88},"2466690","pauldisneyiv","I run a startup providing inventory services to automotive dealerships and make use of the eVox product. Great images. That being said I would be very careful how your licensing…",{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"2466692","vlucas","Those photos are gorgeous. I made http:\u002F\u002Fautoridge.com and I had a lot of trouble finding good vehicle photos. I ended up using the Flickr API to pull in photos for both the…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"2466631","d5dhatch","I'll admit I'm in the category of color-first car shoppers. Well-done and quite beautiful. Outside of color and type I might add in price next and mpg. Then hand the search off…",[98,110,122,133],{"value":99,"source":63,"evidence":100},"Categorization is messed up and cars are misplaced",[101,105,109],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"2466599","CWIZO","Categorization of cars is messed up. There's a BMW 5 series in the hatchback section. And a VW Beatle in the sports section ... and countless other examples. Is \"seeing cars in…",{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"2466592","naner","Still actually kind of sucks. There's not enough filters. Also they seem to have conflated \"Sportscar\" with \"Convertible\" moving all high performance hardtops under…",{"id":82,"by":83,"text":84},{"value":111,"source":63,"evidence":112},"Lacks data such as MPG, price and safety ratings",[113,117,121],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"2467601","hkuo","Having worked one of the top auto manufacturer websites from top to bottom, MPG and Seating are the next two things you need to add. 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