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FyndRadar

FyndRadar answers the one question that matters before you buy: is this actually a good deal? It estimates an honest market value from thousands of real sold prices across marketplaces and auctions, scores every listing, and surfaces the true finds before anyone else spots them.

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FyndRadar

Problem

Great second-hand deals disappear in minutes, and a listing's true value is buried across dozens of comparable sales. Checking several marketplaces by hand is slow and easy to miss.

Idea

One radar that continuously scans marketplaces and auctions, estimates a fair value for each item, and only surfaces the listings priced clearly below it.

My role

I owned the product end to end, the concept, the value-check logic, the feed structure, and the AI prompts that classify and price each listing.

Tools used

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Under the hood

  • Values come only from real final prices on Tradera and Auctionet, what things actually sold for, never what sellers hoped for. Asking prices are excluded on purpose.
  • A valuation needs at least three real sold comparables behind it. Below that the product says the basis is missing instead of showing a number.
  • A listing is only flagged as a find when it sits at least 40 percent under what comparable items actually sold for.
  • When the comparables cover several variants, the result is shown as a range rather than an average that cannot be substantiated.
  • Reference bars in the market view each rest on at least 100 sold items, so the baseline is a real distribution and not a handful of outliers.
  • The rule the whole thing is built on: it does not guess. If the evidence is thin it says so, and shows the user the underlying listings to judge for themselves.

Process

  • Mapped what a 'real find' looks like and when an alert is actually worth sending.
  • Designed the core surfaces: Radar, Auctions, Value-check and My finds.
  • Built the valuation rules on real sold prices, with a minimum evidence bar before any number is shown.
  • Built a clean feed where the strongest finds rise to the top.

Key decisions

  • Rank by deal strength, not just keywords, quality over volume.
  • A dedicated value-check so the price estimate is always one tap away.
  • Keep the human in the loop: the radar recommends, the user decides.

What I learned

  • Trustworthy pricing is the whole product, one wrong estimate breaks confidence.
  • Fewer, higher-confidence alerts beat a noisy firehose.

Next steps

  • Saved searches and category-specific value models.
  • Push/email alerts with a confidence score.

Business potential

Resellers and bargain hunters are a motivated, recurring audience. Clear path to freemium (limited alerts) and pro (more categories, faster refresh, analytics).

Want to talk about this one?

Happy to walk through the thinking, the prompts and where it's headed next.