ebay - part out pro
Overview
partoutpro set out to disrupt the salvage auto parts industry — pairing deep industry expertise with new data sources and merging techniques to increase revenue and reduce costs for salvage yard operators.
Deliverables
Product Discovery
UX Design & Wireframes
Full-Stack Engineering
API & Data Integrations
Disrupting the salvage auto parts industry — from vision to eBay acquisition
The challenge
PartOut PRO approached Devblock with a vision to disrupt the salvage auto parts industry. They possessed deep industry expertise and recognized the opportunity to leverage new data sources and data merging techniques to increase revenue and reduce costs for salvage yard operators. While PartOut PRO had a strong understanding of the industry, the data, and the partnerships needed to make the vision real, they lacked the technical capability to build a scalable system with the high-quality design and user experience their operators would expect. They needed a trusted partner who could collaborate openly, draw on a proven product-building practice, and turn the vision into a working product.
The solve
Devblock was chosen for its product development expertise and engaged a cross-functional team — solutions designer, technical architect, experienced UX designers, engineers, and testers — to specify, plan, and build the envisioned product. The engagement opened with a series of discovery meetings, where the team worked closely with PartOut PRO to understand their high-level sketches, business goals, and the realities of the salvage yard environment. From there, Devblock produced functional specification documents, UX flows, and wireframes that solved for all of the primary use cases, giving both teams a shared, decision-ready blueprint before any engineering began. With the specification locked, the team moved into final UX and visual design alongside a fully documented technical architecture, ensuring the product would feel polished to operators and remain extensible under the hood. The technical implementation was built to scale — designed to grow with additional partnerships and API connectors as PartOut PRO's footprint expanded. Finally, Devblock consulted on monetization, recommending a subscription management service that reduced engineering cost while enabling flexible pricing and promotional options the business could keep iterating on without rework.
The impact
Devblock's partnership and collaboration with PartOut PRO produced a well-built, well-designed product that delivered measurable benefits to salvage yard operators on day one. The product unlocks previously wasted value by identifying in-demand salvage items before vehicles are crushed, opening a new revenue stream from inventory that would otherwise have been written off. Operators and their staff streamline day-to-day work and cut down the time spent on manual processes, while access to competitive data lets them make better-informed pricing decisions across their listings. Richer listing data flowing through to eBay also improves search ranking, lifts conversion, and reduces return rates — compounding the impact across every transaction. Ultimately, the product was acquired by eBay and continues to operate today, processing hundreds of thousands of listings. Devblock's collaborative approach and technical expertise turned PartOut PRO's vision into a category-disrupting product — proof of what an open, trusted partnership can build when industry expertise meets a seasoned product team.
