BeAvto
Four products, one codebase, 75,014 trims
BeAvto is a four-module automotive platform on one codebase: a vehicle-specification catalog, a classifieds engine, a nationwide service directory and a set of buyer calculators. Live since 2018, rebuilt mobile-first in 2026, fed by an in-house parsing and content pipeline that runs unattended.
Challenge
Four products — catalog, classifieds, directory, calculators — on one 2018 codebase, with 75,014 trims and 22,483 businesses to keep current. Manual data entry was never an option, and the legacy build chain could not carry a mobile-first interface.
What we built
We built an in-house parsing pipeline that imports and normalises vehicle data into dictionary tables, 58 command-line jobs and 12 cron schedules that keep it running unattended, and an image pipeline that watermarks and resizes 119,828 photos. The front end moved to Vite 5 with one mobile-first component library shared by all four modules.
Result
A platform where 75,014 trims, 22,483 businesses and 45,634 reviews stay current without manual work — 70 automated jobs, one shared component library, and a bilingual interface rendered from the same normalised data.
What it does
Every screen below is the live product, captured this week.
Search and marketplace
The entry point is a search over live listings: body type, brand, model, year, price, region and mileage resolved into one query, with saved searches that alert on change.
- 40+ filters across body type, brand, model, year, price and region
- Saved searches with change alerts and comparison lists
- Seller accounts, phone-reveal tracking and listing analytics
Specification catalog
271 brands, 4,380 models, 9,394 generations and 75,014 trims, normalised into dictionary tables so a generation page can compare its own trims row by row.
- Engine, power, 0–100, transmission, drive, body and weight per trim
- Tire and rim sizes, PCD, oil types and service intervals
- Side-by-side comparison of what differs between versions
Service directory
22,483 businesses across 598 cities in seven categories — repair shops, car washes, tire shops, fuel stations, dealerships, rentals and insurance.
- Filters by district, work type, rating and photos
- Live 'open now' state calculated from real opening hours
- 45,634 reviews with star ratings and 11,303 photos
Buyer calculators
Five financial tools that answer the questions a buyer asks before choosing a car, each with an explanatory article and links back into the catalog.
- Customs clearance, credit, leasing, fuel cost and transport tax
- Live recalculation as inputs change, no page reload
- 232-code OBD-II fault reference alongside the tools
Rebuilt mobile-first: search, catalog and calculators are the same component library at a single-column width.
Under the hood
The stack, and the engineering decisions behind the build.
- In-house parsing pipeline normalising vehicle data into dictionary tables — no manual data entry anywhere.
- 58 CLI jobs and 12 cron schedules running import, normalisation, image processing and publishing unattended.
- Image pipeline watermarking and resizing 119,828 photos without blocking the request path.
- Vite 5 migration off the 2018 build chain, with one mobile-first component library across all four modules.
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