Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption • Hacker News Board

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by hirokib » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 1:51 AM UTC

Meic wrote: post #9

heumn wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It does :) You can find it at the top of the page at https://docs.enode.io

Thanks! And it validates fine, congratulations. API added to the APIs.guru OpenAPI Directory.

Do you recommend OpenAPI based docs? I used SlateDocs for mine: https://butterflylabs.gitlab.io/api-documentation because I found that generating OpenAPI with NestJS to be kind of a pain as part of a build process.

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by powerbroker » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:45 AM UTC

Controlling the charge going to people's cars seems quite invasive -- particularly if you are making the control contingent on their being present at their house or apartment. How do you overcome this?

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by robert-cochran » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 5:06 AM UTC

Awesome work! I’m actually working on something similar and would love to contact you. What would be the best way to do that?

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by heumn » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 6:59 AM UTC

mlwiese wrote: post #20

How do you differentiate your company from https://www.bidgely.com

It seems like Bridgely hooks up to the grid while we connects directly to the energy product? so when they sell ML tech to detect EV chargers we help onboard a the customer directly to their app

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by heumn » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 7:00 AM UTC

robert-cochran wrote: post #23

Awesome work! I’m actually working on something similar and would love to contact you. What would be the best way to do that?

Cool! You can reach me at nikolai at enode io :)

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by heumn » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 7:02 AM UTC

powerbroker wrote: post #22

Controlling the charge going to people's cars seems quite invasive -- particularly if you are making the control contingent on their being present at their house or apartment. How do you overcome this?

Not sure I understand. We don’t install any hardware at peoples homes. We connected directly to the charger over the internet (most new chargers are now IOT devices)

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by heumn » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 7:03 AM UTC

boringg wrote: post #19

Wow - you guys have set yourselves up for a lot of work! The amount of different hardware and versioning out there is going to be a lot of data disentanglement and cleaning. If you can pull it off would be super useful for the undervalued and often difficult to monetize residential space. Sounds like you should partner with Genability and UtilityAPI once you prove out your tech. Good luck.

Thanks! Yeah this will not be easy but I guess that’s also why there’s an opportunity here :)

Awesome suggestions. Will check them out

Re: Launch HN: Enode (YC W21) – API for energy consumption

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Post by hlangeland » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 7:22 AM UTC

floatrock wrote: post #18

Sounds like you're teeing up to be the pipes for DER management. That's great -- lots of people are coming into the field wanting to be the ones who own the DER management/experience -- but who do you think is going to win the coordination fight? The EV folks know they have giant batteries on wheels, so they're all wanting to control their schedules to do utility-scale grid services. Smart EV chargers like the JuiceB…

You’re raising a lot of relevant issues! We think that your energy provider is in the best position to realize this value. That's also why we focus on those companies as our customers. Managing conflicting schedules is one of the challenges we have to solve. Don't want anyone to be stuck in IoT hell:)