CarDash - Free roadside assistance and auto repair advice

Hey Product Hunters! Yinon from the CarDash team here. We started CarDash on a mission to bring trust and convenience to the automotive service experience, and a year ago we launched out of YC as a concierge service that picked up the customer’s car, delivered it for service, and took care of scheduling on behalf of the customer. This was a big success in Silicon Valley and was quickly adopted as an employee benefit at many corporate campuses such Google, SAP, Workday, Yelp, and Box. We learned though that concierge service didn’t address the most significan pain points for many car owners. Many people associate taking care of their car with going to the dentist. The hassle of car ownership adds unnecessary stress to our life and is compounded by lack of transparency across the industry on pricing, quality, and scheduling. So we decided to question everything about auto repair and look at things from a fresh perspective. I’m pleased to announce the first phase of our plan today. CarDash is launching a new membership service to help simplify car ownership and save our members money with the following benefits: - Free roadside assistance - Free expert auto repair advice - Access to cashback in our network of over 3,000 shops - Free in-app cloud storage of all your vehicle service records (coming soon) How can we offer these for free? There is strength in numbers. Just because your parents paid for certain things doesn’t mean you have to. By leveraging the large pool of CarDash members, we are able to provide member savings on their auto repair at thousands of shops and still make enough to help support our growth. The more people join CarDash, the more savings we can pass to our members. In the future we will also offer premium plans. This is all just the beginning, and we want to thank the thousands of customers who have come with us so far on this journey. Exciting times are ahead! We’d love to get some feedback and we’re happy to answer questions!

Completely agreed that cars can be a real hassle - remember spending hours at the repair shop last time I owned a car. Excited to see where this goes!

I'm excited for CarDash because they're continually rolling out new features. This week, the 'Find A Shop' feature became available! While I currently don't need any repairs on my car, I'm looking forward to the day I'll be able to use it to find a quality repair mechanic at a fair price, with a CarDash discount for savings (and as a college student, I could use the help saving here and there)!

Pros:

It's free! Quick response time from customer support and easy-to-use UI.

Cons:

UI can be cleaned up.

I think you should add a possibility of helping drivers (users of your app) each other, not only support team. Add there some rating system to understand better who is pro in the community, bonuses motivating to help each other, etc. I think this project can have great prospects in the long-term

❤️Love this! I can’t wait for some mechanic to be mansplaining to me why I need some really expensive fixes, and I’ll be able to just pull up this app for an immediate second opinion. Game changer!

I find that CarDash provides me with ease of mind when it comes to dealing with anything to do with my car. I am really happy that there is an app now as it makes it so much easier to get in touch with someone at CarDash for support.

Pros:

Easy access to support and professional help. Makes dealing with frustrating car issues much easier and less stressful.

Cons:

So far I have not had any negative experiences.

Pretty amazing service! Car repairs is a horrible, slow, and hard to communicate experience. So glad you’re addressing the market.

Best of all its free for the first 10,000 members

Does this work well for Electric cars or have any different benefits for EV drivers? Looks like a great service!

great unveiling guys. as a non-auto this rocks.