About
A price guide that watches the lot
Throttle indexes what dealers publish on their own websites, checks it on a schedule, and keeps the history. It is a market-intelligence tool that happens to be a good way to shop — not a classifieds board that happens to have data.
The problem
Buying a used side-by-side, boat or bike means opening twenty dealer tabs and guessing. The listing does not say how long it has been sitting. It does not say the price was $2,000 higher last month. It certainly does not say what the three identical units that sold last quarter went for. That information exists — it is just never written down.
What we do about it
We visit each dealer's own site on a schedule and record what is there. A price change is an event. A listing that disappears and stays gone becomes a sold record, with a date we can defend. Over time that produces the three numbers a buyer actually needs: what it costs, how long it has been available, and what similar machines actually went for.
Rules we hold ourselves to
- Dealer sites only. We do not crawl aggregators or marketplaces. If a store asks us to stop, we stop within a day — see how ThrottleBot works.
- A bad crawl is not a sale. If a fetch is blocked, errors, or returns implausibly few units, it produces no conclusions at all. Marking something sold because our crawler had a bad day would poison the only asset we have.
- No invented numbers. Where the sample is too thin for an honest median, the page says so instead of drawing a chart. You will see “not enough comparable listings yet” a lot in the first months. That is the system working.
- Our clock, not theirs. Days-on-market counts from the first time we saw a listing. Dealer software re-stamps its own posted date on every refresh, which is exactly the number a buyer must not be shown.
Where we are
Beta. We are tracking 0 listings across 0 dealers. Sold history and trend charts need roughly two months of heartbeat before they say anything true, which is why Throttle+ is not on sale yet.
Who we are
A very small, self-funded team. There is no venture money behind this and no plan to sell your data — the business model is a subscription, deliberately, so the incentives stay pointed at buyers.
Something wrong, missing, or worth building next? Email [email protected], or see the roadmap.