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Company blog · smartcar.com/blog · on HN as sahaskattastartupsbusiness
Smartcar is the company blog at smartcar.com, writing about startups and business. Since 2016, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 78 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Smartcar, a connected car API platform, mostly in 'Who is hiring' threads, plus one thread on Otonomo allegedly copying its API product. The comments do not assess its writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Car API to manage EV charging, verify mileage, track fleets, and retrieve vehicle data. Smartcar is the easiest way to connect your app to cars.
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> The idea here probably isn't patentable. "Locate and unlock a car's doors remotely" is not exactly original. I don't want to be disrespectful and also don't want to condone somebody ripping off API docs. But if the whole product is nine pretty simple and straightforward RESTful API endpoints with OAuth2 integration(eg. [1]), then I have a hard time to understand why there are not hundreds of other companies doing…
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on “Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product”Submitted Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product as a story · 2292 points
HN discussionnot sure how to formulate it but wouldn't a great execution be very hard to reproduce? looks like it's copying the external API. also looking at the other company documentation, it's different from the screenshots: https://docs.otonomo.io/docs/getting-started (archive.org history is quite limited so may have been scrubbed) edit: yes those "screenshots" are very disingenuous: https://smartcar.com/docs/api#introduction
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on “Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product”Submitted Power use is hitting record highs – what summer outage risks tell us about grids as a story · 36 points
HN discussionYep! Just check out our docs: https://smartcar.com/docs/ Would love any feedback you may have!
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on “Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product”Submitted The pitch deck I used to raise a $2M seed from A16Z as a story · 25 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development | Mountain View | Onsite | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (8 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transpo…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2016)”Submitted Unlock your car with 4 lines of code as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development, Design | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the futur…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2017)”Submitted API tutorial: Find nearby charging stations based on EV's state of charge as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes sinc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)”Submitted BYD overtakes Tesla in Q4 EV sales as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend, Sales | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomou…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)”Submitted Climate action messaging is less effective when driven by guilt and fear as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes sinc…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Why build the future of mobility? 2022 EV sales and adoption stats as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSmartcar API | Frontend, Backend | Mountain View | Onsite Only | https://smartcar.com/ I'm one of the first employees at Smartcar. I joined about a year ago after parting ways with a $3M VC-backed startup I cofounded 5 years ago. A lot of startups have great teams and investors but I chose this startup because I believe that it's in the right space at the right time: transportation. Transportation is roughly 9% of U…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2016)”Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of tra…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)”Smartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development, Operations Manager, Recruiter | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (10 people) making a big change in transportation. Smartcar is building the first standard API to enable everyone from a creative developer in a dorm room to a large business to build applications that communicate wit…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2018)”Smartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (10 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes sin…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2017)”Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of tra…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2017)”Smartcar API | Frontend, Sales | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomou…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)”Smartcar - The connected car API for developers. We have Full Stack and Front End full time and internship openings onsite. Check out our careers page: https://smartcar.com/careers/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)”Smartcar - The connected car API for developers. We have Full Stack and Front End full time and internship openings onsite. Check out our careers page: https://smartcar.com/careers/
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)”Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend | Mountain View | Onsite | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (8 people) looking to make a big change in transportation. We believe the future of transportation is Autonomous, Electric, Shared and Connected. Smartcar is building an API platform to solve the "connected" part of it. We just brought 3 more engineers on the team last month but looking to get 2 more with 2+ years of…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016)”Smartcar | Mountain View | Full-Time | https://smartcar.com The connected car API for developers. Here are our openings: - Front End Engineer II: https://jobs.lever.co/smartcar/2600777f-5f9f-444b-9a6b-1eeee... Feel free to reach out to our internal recruiter directly! mathilde@smartcar.com
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”Smartcar API | Frontend Engineering, Backend Engineering, Business Operations, Business Development, Operations Manager, Recruiter | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (10 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)”Smartcar API | Frontend, Backend, Business Development | Mountain View, CA | ONSITE | https://smartcar.com We're a small team (9 people) making a big change in transportation. Technological additions to vehicles are kicking off a new era of better transportation which is affordable, greener, and safer. The automotive industry is undergoing the most disruptive changes since its inception. We believe the future of tra…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2017)”Smartcar | https://smartcar.com/ | Mountain View, CA | Full-Time | ONSITE, REMOTE We are a well-funded Mountain View-based startup building a developer platform for connected cars. We are looking to bring on two engineers to join our core team: -Backend Full Stack Developer -Frontend Software Developer To see our full job descriptions, click here: https://smartcar.com/about/ If you are a self-starter, an over-achiev…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2016)”Smartcar | Mountain View, CA | Engineering Manager, Developer Relations, Marketing Manager | Full-time | https://smartcar.com Smartcar is the API for cars. Developers can use Smartcar REST APIs to locate, get an odometer reading, or even lock/unlock the doors to cars of any make or model without any aftermarket hardware. We hope to remove barriers to entry to build apps/services for cars and empower developers to bu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”