Show HN: Pulse – Develop the Future of Energy Services

by traviswingo • 10 years ago

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traviswingo4• 10 years ago

We're trying to lower the barriers to entry to building helpful energy services by building a standardized and centralized API to allow developers to easily authenticate with user utility accounts and use their data.

1_listerine_pls2• 10 years ago

If I understood correctly, you are connecting directly with each utility company's API and exposing your own API.

Are their APIs used for bill payments? is yours?

traviswingo4• 10 years ago

Yes, we connect with each utility company API and expose our own. Each utility API is a little bit different, so we simplify this sort of the way segment simplified analytics integrations or Plaid simplified bank account integrations.

Their APIs are read-only, no bill paying through them. We can see different types of data, though, from usage to billing intervals.

zucker4573• 10 years ago

What's the difference between this and the PGE api?

traviswingo4• 10 years ago

If you're just using the PGE api, then not much. If you're building an app that doesn't discriminate between utilities and your users are from all over, then this is a solution. We're trying to simply make it so the API from every utility looks exactly the same, so developers can write code once, and it works regardless of what utility the user is a part of.

jqkeller• 10 years ago

Are you helping utilities that don't have an API to setup one?

asimuvPR• 10 years ago

Whats the stack? Im mostly cuellos about the db of choice. I built something similar for another market and the database choice was PostgreSQL for its json capabilities and full text search.

irunbackwards• 10 years ago

Only PGE right now? Are you implementing Green Button Connect? How are you getting past the requirement for users to fill out CISR forms to allow 3rd party to manage data?

Show HN: Pulse – Develop the Future of Energy Services

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