How FlipFirst works
Start with the search, not a listing.
You choose where you want to look and what you want to flip. FlipFirst is designed to do the scanning, organise the matching listings and explain the local market before asking you to act.
Available on this site: An interactive example lets you enter an area and item, inspect an illustrative listing feed and save the same search brief for early access. It does not search a live marketplace yet.
Why it is built this way
The first input should be your intent, not somebody else’s listing URL.
A listing checker begins after you have already found the item. FlipFirst begins one step earlier. It is designed to find the candidates, compare them in one local market and give you enough context to decide which ones deserve attention.
The useful parts
What the product needs to do.
- 01
Choose the area
Set the place where pickup, competition and resale actually matter. A local market is more useful than a broad national result when the item is bulky, time-sensitive or expensive to move.
- Your suburb, city or practical pickup radius
- The same local boundary used for listings and market context
- 02
Say what you want
Describe the resale target in ordinary words. That could be sofas, mountain bikes, jackets or a narrower model. The search brief should be easy to change as you learn the market.
- Start broad when you are still learning
- Narrow the target when condition, brand or model changes the deal
- 03
Review the organised feed
FlipFirst is designed to bring matching listings into one feed instead of making you repeat the same scan. Each candidate needs enough source context to inspect, compare or reject it.
- Matching listings grouped around one search
- Source facts kept separate from FlipFirst’s analysis
- 04
Use the market before the alert
The decision layer compares supply, demand, likely resale, complete costs, risk and maximum buy. Fast alerts come after that work. AutoSnipe is a later controlled layer, not the starting promise.
- Analysis explains why a candidate stands out
- Speed and automation follow the rules you set
No blurred lines
What is here now. What still has to be proved.
On this site now
- Build an area-and-item search brief
- Explore an illustrative listing feed and market analysis
- Use four practical flipping guides and a maximum-buy calculator
- Save the search brief for early-access contact
Not yet a public capability
- Automatic current-local listing discovery
- Delivered alerts measured against a real notification target
- Controlled AutoSnipe actions with explicit user rules
- Verified customer outcomes and public proof
Straight answers
Before you try it.
Do I need to paste a listing first?+
No. The intended product starts with your area and what you want. FlipFirst supplies the organised listing feed.
Does the example search live marketplaces?+
No. The current site example is illustrative. It shows the product shape and carries your search brief into early access without claiming live discovery.
Where do alerts and AutoSnipe fit?+
Fast alerts sit after market analysis. AutoSnipe is a later controlled feature for candidates that pass rules you have set.
See the product shape