VehiclePull - One Button, Real Vehicle Models
For this app, I wanted a clean “one button” experience to call an API and deliver real vehicle makes and models. VehiclePull is a tiny Next.js front end backed by a Rails API that talks to the NHTSA vPIC dataset and does just that. The flow is intentionally boring: one button, category filter, a clean detail card, and a small recent-pulls history so the app doesn’t feel empty. The API does the heavy lifting (make + model + year) and the UI stays simple. Hosting is the same boring/stable combo: Heroku for the Rails API, Amplify for the UI. It’s small, predictable, and easy to deploy. Exactly the point.
I wanted a clean “one button” experience, but this time with real vehicle models instead of just makes. VehiclePull is a tiny Next.js front end backed by a Rails API that talks to the NHTSA vPIC dataset.
The flow is intentionally boring: one button, category filter, a clean detail card, and a small recent-pulls history so the app doesn’t feel empty. The API does the heavy lifting (make + model + year) and the UI stays simple.
Hosting is the same boring/stable combo: Heroku for the Rails API, Amplify for the UI. It’s small, predictable, and easy to deploy — exactly the point.
Posted: March 30, 2026