Case 03 · October 6, 2026 · 2 min read
What would happen if an app read its own records back?
SupercarIQ is the Paddock20 app that names a car and prices it from auction results. It is the first app on the Test Track. Here is its record, from June 13 to October 6: every night of its price sweep, every auction result in its store, every price lookup.
4,131
Auction results in its store
2,836 of them sold104
Nights its price sweep ran
June 24 to October 618
Empty nights in a row
since September 19326
Price lookups logged
12 in the last 30 days624
Models in its store
across 22 makes1,853
Results with a photo
285 of the 624 modelsThe nightly price sweep
Each night it asks its price source for one make’s latest auction results, a different make each night, and stores what comes back. Until September 18 that was as many as 100 results a night. Since September 19 it has come back empty every night: 18 nights in a row, using 66 calls along the way.
Oct 6
measured from its own job log, one bar a night. A stub is a night it ran and found nothing; the blank on August 22 is a night it did not run. The log keeps no reason for an empty night, so the record cannot say why.
What is in its store
4,131 auction results across 22 makes and 624 models: 2,836 sold, 794 that missed their reserve, 495 without a published result and 6 withdrawn or canceled. The newest arrived September 18.
measured. October is counted through October 6. 1,853 results carry a photo, covering 285 of the 624 models.
Who asked it
326 price lookups since June 14, 265 of them in June. 12 came in the last 30 days, and none from a signed-in account. Since September 1, none of its 13 lookups found fresh prices in its store or new ones from its source.
June
measured from its lookup log. October is counted through October 6. Signed-in accounts also saved 58 searches between June 13 and August 31, and none since.
Not on the record yet
- How each search came in. Its lookup log has a field for it. It has never been filled in.
- How fast it answers. It logs no answer times, so the under-a-second figure on paddock20.com has not been timed here.
- How sure it is. One confidence record in all.
- Live auctions. Its table of live auction events is empty.
- Price history. Its table of daily price snapshots is empty.