Smartcar Blog

Introducing required permissions

In anticipation of some exciting new API endpoints that will be announced in the coming weeks, we’re thrilled to launch a mighty feature today. Meet required permissions!

Company

The Bay Area's first mobility hackathon

This weekend, Shell, HERE Technologies, and Smartcar are hosting HackMobilty 2019 - the first mobility hackathon ever organized in the Bay Area. Here’s why mobility is the perfect topic for a hackathon, and what you can expect from the event.

Product

Designing Smartcar Connect

A behind-the-scenes look at how we redesigned our authorization flow.

Product

Introducing Smartcar Connect

Smartcar Connect lets your users quickly and securely link their car to your app.

Product

Rethinking Smartcar's brand: to infinity and beyond

A few weeks ago, Smartcar's brand got a major facelift. We've always striven for clean, sleek, and simple design, but over the last few months, we felt like something was missing. We wanted our potential customers to have a better sense of our true identity as a company.

Company

Building on-demand car wash apps with Smartcar's API

Smartcar's API allows on-demand car wash apps to create seamless customer experiences. Here's how it works.

Product

Introducing the lock and unlock API

Smartcar's lock and unlock API endpoints allow app developers to lock and unlock cars remotely, using just a few lines of code. Here's what you need to know to get started.

Company

How Turo uses Smartcar to offer instant car sharing

The peer-to-peer car sharing service uses Smartcar’s API to let vehicle owners seamlessly share a digital car key with guests

Company

How Washos uses Smartcar to create seamless on-demand car wash experiences

The app-based car wash service uses Smartcar's lock and unlock API endpoints to let customers share a digital key to their vehicle with detailers

Company

How Otonomo, with nearly $55 million in funding, is illegally cloning our product

We started Smartcar a few years ago with a powerful mission: making it possible for developers to easily build apps for cars.

Engineering

How to create a dynamic and responsive time series graph with D3 and React

Build an awesome time series line graph using React, paired with the JavaScript library D3

Product

Introducing the Smartcar odometer API

Smartcar is proud to present its odometer verification API. Our odometer API endpoint lets app developers remotely access a car's mileage information, using just a few lines of code

Product

Announcing the Smartcar Java SDK

Today, we're proud to bring Smartcar's API to all Java developers. Using our Java SDK, you can now integrate our API into your mobile or web app using Java

Engineering

Why we chose PostgreSQL and Apache Avro to create a billing data store

When we set out to build a billing infrastructure for our API platform here at Smartcar, we decided to use PostgreSQL and Apache Avro to create a billing data store. Here is why.

Engineering

How to unlock your car with 4 lines of code

Smartcar’s API allows developers to locate, lock, and unlock cars remotely over the internet. Here’s how you can unlock your own vehicle using only a laptop and a few lines of code!