Version 1.4.1: Your Truck Is Now Part of the Math

1/ The Hauling Toggle: A $50–130 Difference Per Bid

Here's something the previous version got wrong by default: it assumed everyone needs to rent a truck.

That's a $50–150 hauling cost baked into every max bid calculation. If you own a pickup truck or a van, you were being told to bid less than you could — every single time. Someone with their own vehicle can realistically outbid a renter by $50 to $130 on the same unit and still hit the same margin target.

The fix is simple. A new toggle in the collector panel lets you tell the AI whether you have your own vehicle or need to factor in a rental. Own vehicle: the AI uses a $10–20 gas estimate. Rental needed: it uses the standard $50–150 range. Your preference saves automatically — set it once and forget it.

If you bid regularly at storage auctions with your own vehicle and you've been using the extension for a while, update today and run your next scan. Your max bid numbers are going to look different — in a good way.

2/ Outcome Tracking: Finally, a Way to Know If the AI Is Right

The AI gives you an estimate. You win the unit. You sell the stuff. But what actually happened? Until now, there was no way to close that loop inside the extension.

v1.4.1 adds a "How did it go?" field to every scan in your history. After you've sold the items, you can log what you actually made — the real number, not the AI's estimate. Over time, you build a personal track record that tells you whether the extension is consistently high, low, or on-target for the kinds of units you typically win.

This matters for two reasons. First, it makes you a better bidder. If you notice the AI consistently overestimates tool values in your market, you'll know to mentally discount those items. Second, it gives you actual data to calibrate against — not vibes, not memory, numbers.

The more auctions you log, the more useful the extension becomes. That's how it's supposed to work.

3/ Share Results: One Button, Organic Marketing

Auction bidders talk. Facebook groups, Discord servers, subreddits, forums — people share their wins, their misses, their "you will not believe what was in this unit" moments. We should have had a share button from day one.

There's now a teal Share button next to the existing Copy button in the results panel. Click it and it copies a clean, formatted summary of your scan results — item list, estimated values, max bid recommendation — with a short attribution line at the bottom: "Analyzed with Evaluate My Booty — evaluatemybooty.com."

Paste it wherever you'd normally share a find. It's readable, it's not obnoxious about the attribution, and it gets the word out. Everybody wins.

4/ First-Run Onboarding: No More Staring at a Blank Popup

The old first-run experience: you install the extension, click the icon, and see… a popup with a disabled button that says "Setup Required." Where? Setup what? Best of luck.

The new experience: a welcome overlay walks you through exactly what the tool does and points you directly to API key setup. Two states:

• Not set up yet: Welcome message, what the extension does in plain English, and a "Set Up Now" button that takes you straight to the right place.
• All set: A "You're Ready!" confirmation so you know everything is configured correctly before you head to an auction site.

The API key setup page now also explains why you need your own key: it's a privacy feature, not a burden. Your data goes directly from your browser to the AI provider you choose. Nothing passes through our servers. That reframing matters — "bring your own API key" sounds like a chore until you understand it means nobody else has access to your analysis.

5/ The Popup Now Knows What Site You're On

Previously, the extension showed the same interface regardless of where you were browsing. Click the icon on a Chrome system page and it would try to let you scan — which doesn't work and is confusing.

The popup is now context-aware:

• On StorageTreasures or StorageAuctions: "Ready to scan this listing!" — you're in the right place, let's go.
• On a Chrome system page: "Cannot scan Chrome system pages" with the scan button disabled. No confusion.
• Anywhere else: Default guidance text pointing you toward the supported auction sites.

Small change. Eliminates a whole category of "why isn't this working?" moments.

6/ Everything Else in 1.4.1

A few smaller things that are worth knowing about:

Live API cost estimate before you scan. Before you click "Appraise My Booty," you'll see a live estimate of what the analysis will cost based on how many photos you've captured — something like "Estimated API cost: ~$0.06" for three photos. No more anxiety about what a scan is going to run you.

Scan history expanded from 5 to 20 entries with proper date grouping: Today, Yesterday, Earlier This Week, Older. Cards also now display in the correct order — newest first, which is how literally everyone expects a history list to work.

Cost breakdown fixed. The "How we got this number" breakdown — hauling, labor, disposal, sales tax — was displaying wrong values due to a field name mismatch between the AI response and the display code. That's fixed. The numbers you see now actually match what the AI calculated.

Cleaner button copy throughout. The main CTA is now "Scan This Unit" instead of "Hunt for Treasure." The disabled state reads "Set Up API Key to Start" instead of the generic "Setup Required." Both tell you exactly what to do or what's happening.

After your third scan, you'll see a non-intrusive prompt to rate the extension on the Chrome Web Store. It shows once, it's dismissible, and it never nags. If the tool is saving you money, a rating helps other bidders find it — that's the ask.

Update Now

The hauling toggle and the cost breakdown fix are worth grabbing immediately if you bid regularly. You've been getting max bid numbers that assumed rental costs you may not actually have — that changes today.