Berth

Boats have been my biggest influence since I was a kid, and anyone who's bought or sold one in New Zealand knows the same problem: nobody really knows what a boat is worth. There's no book value here, no reliable guide, just asking prices and gut feel. Berth is my answer: a valuation tool grounded in what boats are actually listed for, not what someone hopes to get.

Under the hood is a Python scraping service that collects thousands of real Trade Me boat listings into a Postgres database, then parses the messy reality of listing titles and descriptions, normalising close to a hundred boat makes, extracting years and engine hours, and filtering out the noise.

On top of that sits a comparable-sales valuation model and a clean Next.js front end: tell it what you've got, and it finds the boats most like yours and prices from the evidence.

Growing the dataset over time so valuations keep getting sharper, and building out the tools around it, like market trends by make and model, and tracking how the NZ boat market moves season to season.