Honest Wheels: Research rides with better information at a lower price

Buying a used car is stressful: Honest Wheels empowers you with in-depth reliability reports about cars, trucks, and SUVs, free VIN lookups, and high-value, low-cost VIN reports that will help you choose your next car with confidence.

Hello Hunters! Samir and I are a pair of independent hackers who want to reduce the stress of buying a used car. While we're waiting on the self-driving-scooter takeover, 60 million new and used cars are still sold in the US every year. Buying a car is *stressful* and most buyers suffer from information asymmetry: What kind of vehicle should I get? What's reliable, safe and fuel efficient? Is this specific a good buy or does it have secrets? Today we're sharing Honest Wheels, our swing at solving this problem. Right now, we have in-depth reports about common problems that affect different cars (did you know second-generation Priuses had easily-damaged headlamps?) as well as CarFax-like VIN reports that are, well, better and more affordable than CarFax reports. The two of us built Honest Wheels in a local coffee shop over the past few weeks. We love building stuff, we're car nerds, and we'd love your feedback. If you know anyone looking to buy a car, we'd love it if you could pass this on! Thanks Product Hunt.

This is incredible! I grew up paying for college on my own and in a family of 6 that continually lived off of 3-4 cars at a time, always in the $1000-3000 price range. This process was *never* easy, and there was never a time that we weren’t in the market, it felt, since things were always breaking and we were always weighing the cost of fixing vs selling and buying another one. Given the new wave of mobility, especially with micromobility, I expect the used cars market to only grow. 👏👏👏