Market Intelligence for Used boats. CarFax,CAP HPI for boats
Description:
Boat Hound is a market intelligence platform for used boat buyers. The used boat market has zero price transparency. Buyers browse dozens of broker sites, guess whether a price is fair, and negotiate blind. I built the data layer that fixes this.
We track 26,000+ boats across 150+ UK, USA & European broker sites. Every price change, new listing, and relist is captured in real time.
What makes it different:
Most boat listing sites just aggregate inventory. Boat Hound analyses it. The deal scoring engine compares each boat against comparable listings, then adjusts for 24 spec factors (engine hours, bow thruster, radar, joystick docking, heating, VAT status, etc.) to produce a valuation that reflects what the boat is actually worth given its equipment, not just its make and model.
The pre-purchase report (£29.99) is the core product:
For any boat on the platform, buyers can generate a full intelligence brief that includes a fair market valuation with offer range, a fault dossier covering known issues for that specific make/model/year (sourced from owner forums and marine publications via web search and AI synthesis), broker negotiation scripts with word-for-word opening lines, and a survey checklist to hand to a marine surveyor. Early testers say the fault dossier alone is worth the price.
The build:
Solo founder, Laravel/Livewire/PostgreSQL stack, LLM inference.
Free to search and browse, no account required. Pro subscription at £24.99/month unlocks the full intelligence suite.
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