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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by dawnerd on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:09PM (#19720075)
Yeah... I went to their homepage and still had no idea what cars they supported, what features the car needed, etc.

From my understanding though they're just a wrapper API around the car manufactures existing apis?

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by nickspacek on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:23PM (#19720188)
Found this eventually: https://support.smartcar.com/faqs/which-car-brands-does-smar...
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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by lars_francke on Monday April 22, 2019 @03:07PM (#19721810)
Agreed. The homepage is confusing and doesn't give me some of the information I need.

The requirements/supported brands & models should be somewhere prominent on the front page, and I'm honestly still confused. Similar any country restrictions. This being limited to the US should not be hidden three levels deep in some FAQ.

The Otonomo isn't any better though, it doesn't even seem to have any links to the docs.

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by danielvinson on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:38PM (#19720341)
> From my understanding though they're just a wrapper API around the car manufactures existing apis?

Yep, think EasyPost for car functions

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