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I don't know if I'd describe it as "TinyURL for your car", but after reading about what it does the description makes sense. It might be hard for people to initially "get" though. Where I see some future potential is in fleet management for smaller fleets (think your local plumber that has a couple of work vans, or maybe a small taxi company, etc). Being able to inexpensively monitor the locations of the vehicles, ho…
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I still don't get it. TinyURL gets a url and makes it smaller, how is this TinyURL for your car?
TinyURL is a short URL that takes you to some piece of information on the web. This is a short URL that takes you to information about your car. I found the name confusing at first, but I can see the logic behind it.
I don't know if I'd describe it as "TinyURL for your car", but after reading about what it does the description makes sense. It might be hard for people to initially "get" though. Where I see some future potential is in fleet management for smaller fleets (think your local plumber that has a couple of work vans, or maybe a small taxi company, etc). Being able to inexpensively monitor the locations of the vehicles, ho…
For $99 Automatic already does this https://www.automatic.com
Okay, my solution requires a $5 adapter. I did not know about this; really exciting to find a competitor with a solution 20 times as expensive. Thank you!
My suggestion would be to research Automatic and Dash and see if you can improve on their setup by bundling all three components into one: try to actually create a device that combines and OBDII dongle, a GPRS modem, a GPS chip, etc. Also see if you can find and white label a cellular provider similar to RingPlus do you can do the whole thing as a service: $5/month plus a $100 device is not a bad deal.
I don't know if I'd describe it as "TinyURL for your car", but after reading about what it does the description makes sense. It might be hard for people to initially "get" though. Where I see some future potential is in fleet management for smaller fleets (think your local plumber that has a couple of work vans, or maybe a small taxi company, etc). Being able to inexpensively monitor the locations of the vehicles, ho…
Thank you for your comments. Agree with everything you wrote. The words 'fleet management' may have bounced around in my head once or twice. Nod.
Having this come with signup, and know that my car will auto-refill when it gets below 30% and is at home or work, would be pretty darn useful.
Maybe one of the companies already does this and I just didn't realize?