Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Cargenta – We Make Cars Connected
Show HN: Cargenta – We Make Cars Connected Hi HN, I’m Emil and I'm the founder of Cargenta (https://www.cargenta.com). We produce plug & play IoT devices for car owners to connect their ordinary car to the Internet and use a smart phone to get the vehicle real time location, health status, receive maintenance assistance and configure advanced security and safety features. Many years ago, it started with a problem: Maintaining my car was too expensive and time consuming. I am a techie and a problem solver at heart, so I decided to check how can I efficiently solve my problem.…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Cargenta – We Make Cars Connected launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Wirelessly connect phone to Android Auto, works on all cars
2021 · carsifi.com · its alternatives →
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Car Thing▲256The smart player from Spotify that fills your car with music
2021 · support.spotify.com · its alternatives →
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Automile▲104Connecting drivers and owners with their car’s data
2015 · automile.com · its alternatives →
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Mojio▲77Connect your car to your favourite people, places and things
2014 · moj.io · its alternatives →
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Found that you can actually run a 35B Qwen model on a Pi with very impressive intelligence and stability. Built connectors for car ODB to read all about car internals, and manufacturer's cloud service for stuff like changing AC or opening/ locking doors. Gave it info such as the full car manual. And then hooked it up with my other agents in our discussion room! So now it can answer car questions such as "when should I add oil and what kind of oil?" and help you fully offline, and when online talk with the agent family that includes all the most powerful models so they know how the car…
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I am not sure if this is fits the HN community, but I am posting it here if people are interested. This is the current iteration of the car: http://i.imgur.com/ko8YBh.jpg Details: I wrote a simple android app that streams the accelerometer data from the phone to the pi over a simple socket. The pi then uses this data to drive the DC motor and the servo motor. Tilting the phone to control the car feels very natural. In this[0] pic you can see the wifi dongle I've used. I am using Adafruit Occidental v0.2[1] as my OS because it has support for my wifi dongle. It also makes some hardware…
2012 · i.imgur.com · its alternatives →
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