Hacker News Reader

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.

View on HN

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?

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.

Do you register with these companies to use their APIs or are they exposed to everyone?

Are you planning to monetize it as subscription?

We have to register as a company with a tax ID. We plan to open it up as a flat subscription model based on the amount of requests required. There will be a free "developer" plan that allows unlimited use with request limits.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com