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Re:Show HN: Carculator – Find the Most Profitable Turo Cars ... by IMAYousaf on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:49AM (#27811492)
This is really cool. What is your data source and how did you build this out because as far as I know, companies like Carvana, Vroom, and Carmax are quite silo’d and ostensibly don’t have an API that’s public facing?
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Re:Show HN: Carculator – Find the Most Profitable Turo Cars ... by TheMichaelJohn on Monday July 12, 2021 @11:53AM (#27811535)
Hey! Thanks for your kind words :)

I’m new here and it’s nice to see the HN crowd embrace this!

I used a service called Drivly:

https://driv.ly

They call themselves a “Plaid for Automotive” but I consider them more akin to an AWS because they’re building out this fundamental level infrastructure and data integrations that unlock the whole automotive world for entrepreneurship. Without a service like this, I don’t think that I could’ve built Carculator.

Cars are the second most expensive asset but unlike homes which are number one, are even harder to do anything with programmatically or entrepreneurially.

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