Nevada Auto Exchange is a full local car marketplace for Northern Nevada — Reno, Sparks, Carson City and Tahoe. Private sellers and dealers list vehicles, local buyers search and message sellers directly, and the entire platform is run from a comprehensive admin dashboard. Designed and built from the ground up by Hire The Creatives.
The Challenge
The client wanted a local-first alternative to the national car-listing giants: a commission-free marketplace where Nevada buyers and sellers connect directly, with private messaging, secure payments, and a launch strategy capable of attracting sellers and dealers from a standing start.
Our Solution
We built a complete marketplace on a modern Next.js stack — vehicle listings with photo galleries, full search and filtering, buyer-to-seller messaging that keeps phone numbers private, Stripe payments for listings and dealer subscriptions, and a “god-mode” admin that controls pricing, content, users, a built-in mailbox and a dealer CRM.
Key Features
- Custom car marketplace with search, filters and photo galleries
- Private in-app buyer-to-seller messaging
- Stripe payments — consumer listings, featured upgrades and dealer subscriptions
- Founding-seller and founding-dealer launch offers with live counters
- Full admin dashboard: pricing, site content, mailbox, dealer CRM and blog
- Local SEO — landing pages, blog, schema markup and a live sitemap
Results
- Launched live at nevadaautoexchange.com with SSL on a hardened server
- A local-first SEO foundation targeting Reno and Northern Nevada
- A commission-free model built to scale from first listing to full marketplace
