FlashFender was born from frustration. Our founder, Alex, spent 8 years managing a large dealership group in Detroit. Every Monday morning, he'd watch his team manually post 200+ vehicles across Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace, OfferUp, and a dozen other platforms. Hours of repetitive work. Constant typos. Missed posting windows. And worst of all— Shadowbanned accounts because they posted too fast.
He tried every tool on the market. They either didn't work, got accounts banned, or cost a fortune. So he built his own— initially just a simple script to auto-post to Craigslist. That script grew into an AI-powered platform handling image enhancement, content generation, anti-shadowban technology, and multi-platform distribution.
Today, we're a team of 25 (and growing) former dealership operators, ML engineers, and full-stack developers—all working remotely across 4 continents. We've processed over 2 million vehicle listings and our customers have sold $4B+ in inventory through our platform. And we're just getting started.
We measure success by our customers' inventory moving faster.
Weekly releases. Real feedback. Constant iteration.
When dealerships post, systems must work. No exceptions.
We don't pass tickets. We solve them end-to-end.
Started in a Detroit garage with a laptop and a vision.
Word of mouth brought our first beta customers.
Released our proprietary image enhancement and content generation.
Crossed the 500 customer milestone with zero marketing spend.
Complete platform overhaul with multi-platform posting.
We are a team of engineers, gearheads, and data scientists on a mission to eliminate manual drudgery from the automotive industry.
To automate 100% of vehicle inventory marketing.
Former dealership managers turned software engineers.
We ship code faster than a 0-60 sprint.
Founder & CEO
Head of AI
Dealership Success
CTO
Head of Product
Lead Developer
Marketing Director
Customer Success