@_yannbertrand yes, we have about a dozen or so French accounts. Typically, you only get your meters read twice per year by your utility, so MeterHero can help you track your usage in the intervening months if you don't mind entering a reading periodically.
Hi Product Hunters! Really excited to be featured here. h/t to @mackflavelle for hunting us. We'll hang out all day to answer questions. First, a bit on what we've built and what we're excited about.
Earlier this year we launched a simple version of MeterHero that would track your water and energy savings and pay cash rebates via sponsorships with companies that want to support sustainability. But we kept hearing from our users that they wanted to be more social in their conservation efforts. So this week we released our Communities feature. MeterHero Communities is a way for you to set up private groups to save water and energy with people you know and trust. So far, people have been using it at work to create sustainability challenges; in apartment buildings, especially where there's a common water meter and the landlord pays the bill; and of course amongst friends and family.
The Community feature is still very nascent, so we'd love to get feedback from you - the experts on community building. Since MeterHero works anywhere, we can see the potential for trans-regional and trans-global communities built around shared values. Ideally, this is a tool that gets used to empower people to solve local problems like water scarcity as well as develop local solutions to global problems like climate change.
@exprofyoung Don't forget to update your meta tags :)
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It's so cool to see so many sign ups today. Because utility data is so uniformly bad, we create all new accounts by hand (ahh...things that don't scale). If anyone would like to be bumped to the head of the line, just ping me and I'll make it happen.
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@exprofyoung Can you bump me up the line? I'm really excited at this. I added my water utility. Also as James said, it'd be great to see my utilities somewhere on landing page.
@paulgosnell yep, though there are still parts of the U.K. with unmetered water service.
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I'm not sure my water bill is broken down by day/week, but instead given in monthly form - though I'm on a water meter. Do you recommend I contact the utility company to see if they can offer me a break-down of the data? Also from the UK.
@adamowenit we use your monthly bills to calculate your savings. Smart meters actually aren't necessary for that calculation. We also let you enter your own readings for more granularity when you need it.
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Looks great. For Aus/NZ users, Powershop offers these kind of graphs as standard.
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