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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 ini
by Mister_Snuggles 10y ago
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, how far they've been driven, whether there are any trouble codes, etc, might have potential. I could also see potential for having maintenance reminders built in (e.g., set up the maintenance schedule, have it remind you say 500km, 250km, 100km before maintenance is required).
All of that would require some user management stuff and vehicle management stuff, but that's just software. You've got the hardware side of things taken care of already.
- dustball 10y agoThank you for your comments. Agree with everything you wrote. The words 'fleet management' may have bounced around in my head once or twice. Nod.
- phaed 10y agoI still don't get it. TinyURL gets a url and makes it smaller, how is this TinyURL for your car?
- Mister_Snuggles 10y agoTinyURL 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.
- geekfactor 10y agoHow about just "get a URL for your car"?
- jordanwallwork 10y agoWhy 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
- danielheath 10y agoPerhaps because without nothing is useful if you don't know where to find it?
- caub 10y agoI wish there was some search engines on the web
- phaed 10y agoExactly, isn't the entire webs just urls for resources? TinyURL has nothing to do with it.
- dustball 10y agoI 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 :)
- enraged_camel 10y ago"Dude, where is my car?"
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- turbohedgehog 10y agoPerhaps DOI for your car is a better analogy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_object_identifier
- iiiggglll 10y agoIt's "find my phone" for your car.
- mdergosits 10y agoSamsara [0] does this too. [0] https://www.samsara.com https://www.samsara.com
- toomanybeersies 10y agoThis is exactly what Telogis (now owned by Verizon) does, except with dedicated hardware built in OEM.