I built a free analytics tool for the Cyprus used-car market
Hi r/Cyprus,
I'm a PM in Cyprus, and I got tired enough of buying used cars here - same car listed three times on Bazaraki at three different prices, vanishing for two weeks, and reappearing €1,500 cheaper, plus the Facebook Marketplace overlap that I built a tool to make sense of it. It got way out of hand. So I'm sharing it: allcars.cy.
It's a data analytics tool, not a marketplace. It indexes every public car listing on the island, deduplicates same-car copies across sources, scores each against real comparables, and keeps a full price history for every vehicle.
A few things it does that nothing else on the island does:
- Cross-platform deduplication. The same Mercedes posted three times by three accounts shows up as one car with one timeline. ~1,300 same-car merges are live right now. Yes, that Mercedes you keep seeing is one Mercedes.
- Deal score with a real fair-price band. Every car gets a 0–100 score against its actual peer group. I made an effort to use real math, not guesstimation. There's a whole page citing the academic papers I used for inspiration.
- Full price history, even after a listing's gone. Every observation preserved. You can see whether a "rare find" has been sitting at three different prices for 90 days waiting for someone to stop reading the listing.
- Number plate lookup - to easily check a car's specs and market, works for most vehicles.
- Check function at https://allcars.cy/check that allows you to check the realtime market price of your car or a car you're looking for based on historical data (will get more accurate ans less janky with time)
On whether the data is real: ~14,300 active deduplicated listings, 700,000+ price observations, five-language parsing (EN/GR/Greeklish/RU/Russlish), continuous refresh. The pricing engine is on its sixth iteration; Gower distance, Epanechnikov kernel, adaptive Bayesian shrinkage, lemon detection. The pipeline and pricing pages have the architecture if you're curious.
What it is, and isn't: an analytics tool. Not a marketplace, doesn't host listings, doesn't take payments, has no affiliation with Bazaraki or any dealer, runs at a small loss every month (~€60). My accountant doesn't understand it either. Every listing links back to its source. If you posted an ad and want it pulled, message me abd it'll be gone the same day.
The honest bit: I'm building this entirely on my own. No team, no investors, no co-founder, no pressure to add an NFT integration. It's very much a work in progress, so expect bugs, missing models, parsing edge cases I haven't seen yet. Some weekends I ship a feature, others I'm fixing a parser that died because someone listed a 2031 Toyota. Genuinely the most useful thing you can do is try it and tell me what's broken or missing. Wrong scores, missing makes, weird listings, feature wishes. Any feedback is really appreciated. Telegram contact is on the site, or hit me up in my DMs
Use it as a website at allcars.cy or install as an app (PWA), no App Store, allcars.cy/install, takes about 10 seconds.
To be clear: this is purely a passion project, and i have no intention of monetising it, posting ads or paid placements. I've made up my mind. It's a pet project, and pets don't have a business model; they have hosting bills. Free forever, for everyone.
If it saves you one Saturday of car-shopping, that's the entire point.