Garage Dollar

Garage Dollar is the easiest way to get information about garage sales in your area, as they happen.

Garage Sales you can advertise for a Dollar Free

Explore garage sales near your location by entering your town, state (i.e. New York State), or “USA”. Click a sale marker for more information about that sale. Never get lost again while looking for garage sales. Getting directions is as easy as clicking “Get Directions” in the sale information box.

Planning a sale? As a seller you can reach a motivated group of moving sale buyers in an instant.

Have feedback? Drop us a line (messel at victusmedia dot com).

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http://steamcatapult.com/ Dave Pinsen

I like it. It's the 21st century upgrade of stapling signs on telephone poles.
http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

Thanks Dave.

It's our first step into location awareness. Tyler did a fantastic job
on this one. The idea hit me while out walking and answering drivers
questions about local garage sales.
Jared McKiernan

How might you get people who are into garage sale hopping to sign up for the service? It seems like most are older and less likely to be web-fluent, but if a group in your area is signed up it would certainly be valuable to post your garage sale on Garage Dollar. Perhaps frequent garage-sellers would be interested in telling their local market about the product and signing people up, much like a band signs up fans for their mailing list at a show?

I think this is a really interesting idea as the tool is simple and useful to non-tech people. Tech people always forget about how non-tech types use the web, media, and tech products; generally the two groups seem to use tech in such disparate ways that the “two types of people” might as well not even be using the same product.

I just messed around with some cursory Google searches looking for a site where garage sale aficionados can converse, share tips, best areas for an intense garage-shopping road trip etc. and I wasn't able to find any such site within several different queries; maybe i just don't know the insider terms to find the hot garage-shopper blog/forum community, but my intuition is that it just doesn't really exist in a centralized locale; if it does, getting them on board would possibly get this tool a solid user base in a hurry.

Cool idea Mark, and I love how basic the UI is: perfect for what I assume to be the primary Garage Sale Junkies: retired people and families with tons of kids. at least this is what my limited experience from the couple garage sales we had when I was younger.

Excited to see where you guys go next from here.
http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

thanks Jared, appreciate the feedback. We're working out the best update methods now (map with clickable icons)
Jared McKiernan

How might you get people who are into garage sale hopping to sign up for the service? It seems like most are older and less likely to be web-fluent, but if a group in your area is signed up it would certainly be valuable to post your garage sale on Garage Dollar. Perhaps frequent garage-sellers would be interested in telling their local market about the product and signing people up, much like a band signs up fans for their mailing list at a show?

I think this is a really interesting idea as the tool is simple and useful to non-tech people. Tech people always forget about how non-tech types use the web, media, and tech products; generally the two groups seem to use tech in such disparate ways that the “two types of people” might as well not even be using the same product.

I just messed around with some cursory Google searches looking for a site where garage sale aficionados can converse, share tips, best areas for an intense garage-shopping road trip etc. and I wasn't able to find any such site within several different queries; maybe i just don't know the insider terms to find the hot garage-shopper blog/forum community, but my intuition is that it just doesn't really exist in a centralized locale; if it does, getting them on board would possibly get this tool a solid user base in a hurry.

Cool idea Mark, and I love how basic the UI is: perfect for what I assume to be the primary Garage Sale Junkies: retired people and families with tons of kids. at least this is what my limited experience from the couple garage sales we had when I was younger.

Excited to see where you guys go next from here.
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http://www.victusspiritus.com/ Mark Essel

thanks Jared, appreciate the feedback. We're working out the best update methods now (map with clickable icons)
http://www.startupboyo.com/ RichardForster

Hey Mark

Love this idea. You need an iphone app or at least an iphone optimised website with a googlemaps link.

Also maybe you should think about a searchable listing on the site (and charge a buck more for it!)

I notice that you have the facebook “like” widget – are you able to tell who visited the site through that?

cheers

Richard
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