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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by localhostdotdev on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:24PM (#19720195)
not 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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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by ignoranceprior on Monday April 22, 2019 @12:46PM (#19720401)
Actually, many of the otonomo docs were saved to web.archive.org, last week:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://docs.otonomo.io/docs/*

And many were saved to archive.fo today:

https://archive.fo/docs.otonomo.io

The screenshots look accurate to me, what discrepancies do you see?

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Re:Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product by localhostdotdev on Monday April 22, 2019 @01:59PM (#19721084)
yes I meant I didn't see anything very old.

I meant that it's just copying the API format (e.g. probably to make migrating from the other service easy) which isn't uncommon (e.g. most of AWS services copied APIs)

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