When I first entered the automotive space, I quickly grew frustrated by the disconnect between the dealerships and their customers. I started thinking about how I search for vehicles and realized it was different than the standard way that are provided on almost every site I visited.

The name VINDR came up during my interview with Force. I was talking about my passion for creating ways that improve the purchasing experience of a vehicle, when we made a joke about how buying a car is like dating. I said off-hand “Like Tinder for cars. Oh! VINDR!“ From there, I set out whenever I had free time to create this application.

You can either immediately start swiping vehicle models you like or don’t like or by answering a series of questions, have filtered results combining the best elements of most dating apps.