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About Throttle

A marketplace built for the buyer side of the recreational-vehicle market.

The problem

Buying a boat, side-by-side, dirt bike, or plane is hard. Listings are scattered across a dozen platforms — BoatTrader, ATV Trader, Cycle Trader, Trade-A-Plane, dealer sites, Facebook Marketplace, Craigslist. Most aggregators sell your contact info as a lead. Most decoder sites charge $30 a report. Most "value lookups" are paywalled or wildly inaccurate.

The fix

Throttle pulls from every meaningful source into one map. Decoders are free and live: HIN via USCG rules, VIN via NHTSA vPIC, N-Number via the FAA registry mirror. Market values come from category-specific depreciation curves trained on real listing data. Sellers can list directly on Throttle for free, with a clearly branded badge and built-in private messaging.

How we make money

We do not run dealer ads. We do not sell leads. We do not gate listings. We make money one way: a $4/month Throttle+ supporter tier with a few nice extras (sold-listing trends, alerts, pro filters). That is the entire business model. If a feature would compromise our buyer-first promise, we do not ship it.

Who we are

A small team that buys boats, rides bikes, and got tired of how every other platform treats buyers like product. Hi.

Throttle is in beta. If you find a bug, a missing make/model, or an idea — email hello@throttle.toys.