Changelog

It’s been one busy week for the two of us. It started by submitting Visor Mobile to App Store Review, and then we decided “hey, we have some time, let’s work on another huge feature this week!” We’re a little tired, but really excited for you to try what we’ve been working on.

Visor Mobile is now in the iOS App Store!

After a week or so of testing by our wonderful beta crew, Visor Mobile is ready for primetime! A special THANK YOU to all who helped us test - your support means to the world to Craig and I.

To download Visor Mobile on your iOS device, simply follow this link to the App Store. We hope you enjoy it, and feel free to send any feedback or issues to craig@visor.vin.

Introducing Advanced Controls

For a while now, we’ve both been wanting even more out of the filters page. We love how it shows the current state of the market in terms of inventory levels, but wished that it could:

• Allow us to travel back in time to a previous state of the market to compare

• Not only show current inventory, but sold listings as well

• Have options sorted not just by # of vehicles, but also avg list price, avg days for sale, market days supply, and more

Well, starting today, it can. For the next few days while we’re putting the finishing touches on this feature, it’s completely free to use!

Simply click the gear icon ⚙️ in the middle of the filters page to see Advanced Controls. We think this will help to supercharge your own market research!

What’s next

• We’re working on more options for Advanced Controls, like sorting on Market Days Supply or even traveling to the state of the market up to three months ago.

• We’ve been having a few hiccups with performance, bugs, and crashes on the site, so next week we’ll be sharpening our pencils and making sure all of our t’s are crossed and i’s are dotted.

• We have a big new feature we’re already working on, but in the meantime, there are a few quick wins that are slotted for next week.

Happy (almost) March! This week is somewhat lighter again than the usual changelog - but trust us, there’s been no slacking in sight.

Price comparison is out, MSRP is in

Starting yesterday, you may have seen a new figure next to pricing. After weighing the pros and cons of showing the “vs similar listings” figure, we decided to swap it out with MSRP. Why remove it, you may ask? We simply had been seeing too many instances of the similar pricing not being quite aligned with the other indicators and visualizations that we show. For the time being, MSRP can be a better indicator when you’re evaluating a new or used vehicle purchase. Plus, you can still use the Leaderboard to compare to other similar listings that are actively on the market.

P.S. click or tap the new figure for a nice surprise :)

Visor Mobile

Development of the mobile app is coming along at a nice clip, and we hope to get it in front of App Store Review within the next few days 🤞. A special THANK YOU to everyone who has been jumping in on Reddit and contributing crash and bug reports through Testflight. Your support means the world to us.

Here’s what we’ve shipped on the mobile app in just the last few days:

• Ability to search a VIN via keyboard

• Take a picture of a VIN barcode, text, or even a license plate to get to a listing - now go car spotting!

• Transitioned from Apple Maps to Google Maps

• Fixed navigation between screens

• Added “Exclude Mode”

• Resolved a whole handful of crashes and bugs from your reports

Other fixes and improvements

• Updated the indicator for expanding and minimizing the map view. We think it looks pretty slick.

• On certain searches “Trim Version” is now “Cab & Bed Type” - we hope this helps those of you who want to get real specific on the search for your next pickup.

What’s next

• As mentioned above, we’re working to get Visor Mobile in the iOS App Store as soon as possible.

• Have you ever been interested in time travel? We probably won’t win a nobel prize for our research, but we think an upcoming feature we’re working on will change the way you look at the market for the car you want. Stay tuned.

This week is a little light on product (or may we now say “Visor Web”) updates, but we hope we’ll more than make up for it with the beta for Visor Mobile being now open.

How to join the beta

If you don’t mind seeing some rough edges, crashes, and incomplete features, and somehow still want to get Visor Mobile on a phone near you, you can install it on Testflight here.

What’s next

• Over the coming days we’ll be iterating rapidly on Visor Mobile with the intention of submitting it to the App Store ASAP.

• We’ve got some big ideas for new features after we wrap up the first version of Visor Mobile - stay tuned!

Happy Valentine’s! Thanks for checking in with us. This week is all about little features and quality of life updates to make your search that much better. Oh yeah… and an invitation.

Hide listings from search results

Some of you have reached out recently asking for a way to get rid of listings that you don’t want popping up in your search results. This new button, located in the top left of the listing detail view, allows you to do just that. Simply click “Hide,” and once you leave the listing you’re currently on, you’ll never see it again. Sayonara!

The “Reliability” filter is so back

Some of you OGs may remember seeing something very similar to the above on our old filters page. Well, let’s just say it went to the shop and came out with a fresh tune-up. This filter allows you to see the number of recalls and owner complaints (as filed with the NHTSA) by model year of vehicle to help you make decisions on reliability.

Manual controls for price and mileage range

We think our sliders are pretty dang cool, but some of you reached out with wishes to control the ranges manually. We get it - sometimes you have a very specific price or mileage range in mind. Now, you can enter the range your heart desires.

Now, for a special invitation 📧

In our last email, we asked you what we should be working on next. Some of you may have guessed it, but a mobile app was by far the leading vote. It’s a good thing, too, because we may or may not have mobile app development experience 😎

If you’re interested in being a beta tester for our upcoming mobile app, please sign up here. We can’t wait to share it with you (it’s already shaping up very nicely).

This week, Craig and I have been focused on polish, accuracy, and reliability for the site. We want to make sure all the t’s are crossed and i’s are dotted when you’re searching for your next dream ride. But despite it being “quality week,” we couldn’t resist the temptation to deliver another big feature - more on that later.

5x more installed options

If you’re a Plus user, you may have already noticed that we are now showing a LOT more volume for listings with installed options (about 5x more, in fact). We spent quite a bit of time this past week figuring out how to decode more installed options from listings, and we think this will let you see a lot more vehicles for sale that have your dream spec.

Early spring cleaning of interior and exterior colors 🧹

This one’s a bit harder to see, but after getting too many emails about the difference between “Storm Cloud 1” and “Storm Cloud 33” (yeah, we don’t know either), we decided to resolve this issue once and for all. From this week on, you should see a lot more listing volume with standardized interior and exterior colors, based directly on OEM build specification data.

(PS - you may still see some strange colors in these filters, but hopefully a lot fewer of them!)

Listing Notes - our response to the downfall of the CARS Act

For a while now, we’ve gotten requests for (and have wanted ourselves) a way to keep notes on a listing as you go through the deal process. We’ve also been feeling a strong desire to share info about listings or dealers with the community to help other buyers know what to expect when pursuing a deal(or dealer).

Starting today, you’ll see a input box near the top of the listing that will allow you to jot down notes for your eyes only, or to share your experience with others.

The CARS Act, which was recently struck down in the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, sought to bring more transparency to online pricing for new and used vehicles. It would have banned dealerships from hiding fees, and would have also required them to post transparent pricing including all fees and dealer-installed options.

Despite the failure of the Act, we want to champion the ideals proposed by this act and empower you to expose hidden fees and help others know what to expect before walking into a dealership.

Other fixes and improvements

• Last week we introduced Exclude Mode, but we heard that you wanted to use Include AND Exclude for the Installed Options filter. Now you can!

What’s next

• We’re considering quite a few big features to start working on, so cast your vote in the roadmap to get them prioritized!

At long last, the wait is over. We promised email alerts months ago, and have been working ever since to bring them to your inboxes. It turns out, sending email is pretty hard! We spent a lot of time optimizing our template to work with as many email providers as possible.

How to turn on email alerts

Starting today, we’ll send you separate emails for updates to your favorite listings and new listings for your saved searches as long as you have their respective notification toggles turned on in your (brand new) account settings.

These toggles are automatically on for new users, but for those of you who joined before 1/29/2025, we didn’t want to start suddenly bombarding your email - so please opt-in if you want to start receiving these emails!

Exclude Mode ⊖

We’ve been hearing from quite a few of you lately that you’d like a way to specify filters by options you don’t want. As usual, we’ve been wanting this too! So we finally broke down and set to work making this feature as simple to use as possible.

Now, when you click “See More” on a filter, you’ll see a new button in the top right of the pop-up dialog called “Exclude Mode!” This is a simple toggle that you can turn on when you want to start excluding options instead of including them. After applying a filter with exclusions, you can easily turn off Exclude Mode by clicking the button that appears in the top right of the filter.

Report a listing

We know it can be frustrating to click into a listing, only to find out that it’s already been sold, or that the listing info that you saw on Visor (or even the dealer site) isn’t accurate. Now, you can easily report a listing based on a few negative experiences you might have had.

This is the tip of the tip of the iceberg of the effort we’re starting to encourage more crowdsourced information on Visor. Stay tuned!

A fresh design for saved searches and favorites 🎨

With the introduction of email alerts, we thought it was time for a new coat of paint on saved searches and favorites. We hope these updates make it even easier to check in on the searches and listings you’re obsessing over.

Other fixes and improvements

• Added a country switcher to the bottom of our homepage to allow switching between the US and Canada market.

• Fixed an issue where fresh listings on saved searches weren’t showing up on the map.

• Added a "🆕” emoji to listings that have been posted since you last viewed in your saved searches.

• Fixed behavior for going back from a listing via keyboard shortcut on desktop and swipe back on mobile.

• Added a “Closest” sort option to the list view.

What’s next

• It’s about time to do some spring cleaning. We want to shape up our data so that it’s as clean and uniform as possible (looking at you, specific colors and installed options). We also want to greatly reduce the number of times you click on a listing and the vehicle is already sold.

• There’s a LOT of new features on our radar - stay tuned for a user email where you can vote on what you’d like to see next!

What’s that, a VIDEO changelog?! That’s right - starting today, we’re going to voice over the weekly changelog so that you can see our beautiful(?) faces.

1. Keywords

We’ve heard from quite a few of you that saw a listing with a great price, only discover that it has a bad CarFax. womp womp. While we still cannot definitively determine the title status of the 2.7 million active used listings in our catalog yet, we can search within the listing notes for keywords like “salvage,” “branded,” “hail damage,” etc to exclude obvious lemons. We can also use keyword search to look for “one owner” and “clean title!” We have a lot of other keywords in mind to come 🔜

2. Gallery preview

Sometimes when you’re looking at listing photos, you don’t want to look at them just one at a time, but instead quickly scroll through them to get a sense of the quality of that listing. Now, instead of taking you straight into the full gallery view, we’ll let you see this preview first. Simply click the photo you want to zoom in on again to get back to the full gallery view.

3. Warranty status indicator

When shopping for used cars, there are certain things you may want to see right up front: the mileage (obviously), CarFax, and warranty status. Starting today, for some used vehicles, you’ll be able to glance the original manufacturer warranty status near the top of the listing to determine if it’s fully active, partially active, expiring, or fully expired. We’re working on expanding this feature to all vehicles, so bear with us!

4. New pricing section and leaderboard

Before, the pricing information on listings was a bit scattered. We wanted to improve the flow of the listing page and make sure all pricing information was clearly laid out.

In addition to the pricing history you’re used to seeing, you’ll now see a tab called “Leaderboard” for used or certified listings. This is where we want to benchmark the listing you’re looking at against similar vehicles with about the same mileage. In the top right, you can select the parameters you want to compare against to other listings. In the table, you can see how this listing stacks up against others. We hope this helps with negotiations and general gut-checking of the market. Stay tuned for something like this, but for new vehicles.

5. “Viewed” indicator in list view

For certain vehicles, it can be easy to get lost in all of the inventory available. Before, we were showing you which listings you had already seen on the map, but now you can also see this in the list view.

Other fixes and improvements

• Adjusted the layout of the Market Velocity section of the listing page on mobile.

• Added a tooltip for the “Missing mileage” button on the filters page.

• Fixed an issue where favorites were not opening the correct listing.

• Options have been indexed for all makes/models! Now, instead of seeing the option code (like “1FT” or “XPROT”), you’ll see the actual name that corresponds to that option code.

What’s next

• Alright, seriously, we SWEAR we’re still working on market alerts. There are a lot of pieces that had to come into place to enable this feature, and we’re getting very close to putting them all together. Thank you for your patience!

• We just cleaned up our roadmap, so take a look at what’s in the “Planned” category. Lots of cool stuff is cooking.

At Visor, we’re not shy about the fact that the filters page is one of our most unique experiences. Being able to see the whole market like this makes honing in on the vehicle you want that much easier. In the past few months of hearing your feedback and using Visor for ourselves, we quickly came up with a looooong wishlist for filters. This week, we’re happy to report that wishlist is now significantly shorter.

Better focus on filters with lots of options

We didn’t like how filters with a ton of options expanded in the previous version, so we came up with a new way of focusing on “heavy” filters. Not only are you able to scroll more easily in this new layout, but we think it’s a lot more intuitive to search!

Multi-select to save time (and clicks)

We’ve heard you - sometimes when you have a list of colors you want to filter on, it can be tedious to click on one, wait, then click on the next, wait…

Now, when you’re focused on a filter that can be expanded, you can simply click on all of the options you want, then click on the big blue button on the bottom to save. We hope this makes searching that much faster.

More mobile-friendly

We’re keenly aware that a lot of search traffic on Visor happens on phones! That’s why in this new design, we wanted to make it really easy to expand and filter on the attributes you need, instead of scrolling endlessly past an insane number of filters.

Other fixes and improvements

• Separated the GMC Yukon from the GMC Yukon XL. Thanks, Michael!

• Fixed a bug where clicking on a listing after zooming in on the map would reset the list view.

• Added a monthly subscription option for Visor Plus. Thank you for your feedback on our pricing!

What’s next

• We know, we know… we’ve been talking big game about market alerts for a while and still haven’t delivered. Fret not, we are working on it! Stay tuned.

• You can expect a few tweaks to the pricing section of the listing view. We have some ideas we’re 🧑‍🍳ing on.

• We’re about to unlock access to a pretty unique set of vehicle characteristic data. Needless to say, we have some ideas…