I Missed CarDomain So I Built Meet My Garage

If you were into cars in the 2000s, you probably had a CarDomain page. One page for your car. Every mod listed. A guestbook full of people saying “nice ride” whether they meant it or not.

I loved that thing. I lost entire nights clicking through other people’s builds.

These days my truck lives in a pile of Instagram posts and a few Facebook groups. Every time I post a photo, someone asks what wheels those are. Every time, I answer it again. The answer from last time is buried in a comment from 2022 that nobody will ever scroll to.

So I built a replacement. It’s called Meet My Garage.

What It Actually Is

You make a page for your car. You add photos. You tag the parts you run.

Here’s my Tacoma…

That’s it. That’s the whole idea. A page you can link people to instead of typing out your mod list for the hundredth time.

Most people are going to see it on their phone, so it was built for that first…

You swipe through the photos, tap a mod, and keep going.

The Part I Actually Care About

Here’s where it’s different from a photo dump.

Every part on the site links to a shared catalog. So when I tag my DUB S219 Shot Callas, I’m not typing “22 inch black wheels” into a text box. I’m picking the exact wheel, down to the size and offset.

Click a part and you get this…

The specs are up top. Below that is every car on the site running that part. Right now that’s just my truck, because the site is brand new. But that list is the whole point.

When I was shopping for wheels, I didn’t want a render on a white background. I wanted to see them on a truck like mine. That’s what this is for.

The catalog has over 300,000 parts right now. Wheels, tires, lift kits, lighting, audio, wraps, tint, all of it. Most of it comes straight from the makers’ own sites. If your part isn’t in there, you can add it yourself in a few seconds and the next person gets to use it.

You can also credit the shop that did your install, which I think is a nice touch. Good shops deserve the free advertising.

It’s Not Just Trucks And Cars

I also have a golf cart.

Golf carts are a whole world of their own. Lift kits, lithium batteries, motor controllers, seats. And it turns out a lot of people run marine audio in them because it’s water resistant. So the catalog has golf cart parts and marine audio too.

The dog is not a mod. Came stock.

How It’s Built

For the nerds, here’s what’s under the hood.

• Python with FastAPI, server rendered pages, and a little HTMX so buttons don’t reload the whole page
• Postgres for everything, including the part search
• AWS for hosting. The app runs on ECS Fargate, the database on RDS, and photos go to S3 behind CloudFront
• Cognito for sign in and SES for the email codes

Deploys roll the new version out next to the old one, so the site doesn’t go down when I push an update. Which is good, because I push a lot of updates.

The catalog was the hard part. Every maker formats their stuff differently, and some of them really don’t want anyone reading their sites. If a site asks bots to stay away, I stay away.

The Money Question

It’s free. There are no ads.

Part pages have a Find it on Amazon button. If you buy something through it, Amazon pays me a small commission. That’s it. That’s the business model. It might cover the hosting someday.

Go Make a Page

The front page shows the newest cars, the most liked, and the top car of the month.

If you have a car, truck, or golf cart you’re proud of, stock or built, go make a page at meetmygarage.com. Claim your name before someone else does.

It’s brand new, so expect a few rough edges. If your part is missing or something breaks, let me know. I’m fixing stuff daily.

And if you were a CarDomain person, welcome back.