Show HN: Gping.io – Like TinyURL for your car

Post by thecodemonkey » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 1:33 AM UTC

intelekshual wrote: post #63

r2dnb wrote: post #47

Interesting but there might be a major gotcha. I see on the demo page that they are using Google Maps, however the free version of Google Maps cannot be used for assets tracking as per their terms of service. You'd need a Premier subscription starting at 10,000 per year to track 100 vehicles. Then it's around 24 USD per extra vehicle. You can use Open Street Map to avoid that (but then forget about Street View and th…

Just FYI that's not the current pricing: it's $6 per asset, with a minimum of 1667 tracked assets ($10000 / $6).

Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 5:31 AM UTC

enraged_camel wrote: post #41

dustball wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree the connection is weak. The similarity is that both services provide a short URL for a resource. In the case of TinURL, it is a longer URL. In the case of gping.io, it is your vehicle. Gimme a mulligan on the tagline and I promise to come up with something better :)

"Dude, where is my car?"

Post by phaed » Mon, Aug 08, 2016, 1:10 PM UTC

jordanwallwork wrote: post #51

geekfactor wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about just "get a URL for your car"?

Why are people so hung up on the url? What's important is the information that you can access. Its like describing Facebook as a set of urls for people

Post by r2dnb » Tue, Aug 09, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

niftich wrote: post #15

"Like TinyURL for your car" confused me too; sorry, I think that's a risk with catchy slogans. But, it's build-you-own-car-tracker (for 5 bucks)! That's pretty cool too, and likely resonates with the IoT/tinkerer crowd.