Introducing Drive107

The Story So Far

For most of my automobile ownership life, I have been using a combination of spreadsheets, paperwork, and pictures on my phone to keep track of expenses and maintenance. The irony is over the past 30 years I have worked for a variety of technology companies, helping modernize Internet security and I am still storing paper copies of my oil changes!

So in 2026 I finally put these two things together and decided to use my tech skills to solve my vehicle maintenance management problem. I looked at all the websites and apps available, and while there were a few with some useful features, none really did what I wanted. So I started to build something myself. A proper home for the boring-but-important side of owning a vehicle. It's called Drive107, and as of today it's live in invite mode, with a public launch planned in the next few months.

What Drive107 does

Over the past year I have been building a range of tools to solve my maintenance woes and I realized the a lot of this applies well beyond cars and it would be very useful to have all those tools in one place. People need to manage trucks, boats, motorbikes, trailers, bikes and managing them in 3-4 apps is painful. So I built Drive107 to manage any vehicle, not just cars and cover a wide range of things related to vehicle management.

• Service history (Todo list, what parts used, costs, photos of work done, who did the work)

• Service schedule (Manufacturer schedule or build your own)

• Maintenance and expense reminders

• Expense records (fuel tracking, insurance, taxes)

• Documents (titles, registrations, receipts, warranties)

• Safety recall alerts

• Journaling, a public or private timeline of curated events by you.

A permanent record for everything that happens to the things you drive, ride, or float.

Most tools in this space are built car-first and treat anything else as an afterthought. I have built something that is designed from day one around a flexible Year/Make/Model/Spec schema that works whether you're tracking an old Buick sedan, a Boston Whaler, a dirt bike, or a brand new e-bike. Under the hood, that means VIN lookups for cars and HIN lookups for boats, and recall data pulled from both NHTSA and the Coast Guard depending on what you own. Bikes get a full build sheet and I have populated drop-downs with manufacturers specific to each type of vehicle.

There's also a timeline. A journal (public or private) for each vehicle, so the maintenance record isn't just a spreadsheet, it's a history you can actually look back on (or share, if you want to show off a build or a restoration).

Then, when it's time to sell. The entire record can be handed over to the new owner, for free. Just enter their email and once they accept, they get the entire history and continue the vehicle's story.

You can read more about the full range of capabilities here.

Why I built this instead of using something else

Before generating a line of code, I went looking for the tool I actually wanted to use. I looked hard at what existed and kept running into the same wall: the products that were free tended to be free because they made their money elsewhere, usually by selling your data or selling ads. That's a reasonable business model, but it's not one I wanted to hand my own vehicle history to, and I don't think I am alone in that.

This research shaped a lot of what Drive107 is now. It's explicitly never going to sell user data. It's built to be a service people pay for because it's useful, not because their data is the product. And the pricing, free for a single vehicle, with paid tiers for families and multi-vehicle owners, is structured so the free tier still gets a genuinely permanent, uncapped maintenance record rather than a crippled trial.

Where Things Stand: Invite Mode

Right now, Drive107 is in invite mode. That's deliberate. Before opening the doors, I want a small group of real users putting real vehicles into the system, surfacing the rough edges in onboarding, data lookups, and the day-to-day flow of logging maintenance and documents. Invite mode is where that happens without the pressure of a full public launch.

What's Next

The plan is to open Drive107 up to the public in a few months. Between now and then, the focus is on tightening up the experience and fixing bugs, before layering on the features that are further out on the roadmap.

If you want in early, just drop me a request and I'll get you an invite.