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Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

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post #5

Wow looking at the ranking page here http://www.wattvision.com/rankings Mark's House use about 10 times energy as comparable size homes. Is it a house or an open air furnace?

It's just a regular house with a nice big garden ... in the basement.

Nice, I knew it.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

#24
post #13

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That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

Thats not how it is working. I clicked "Sign In" and was immediately logged into your site.

Just tried it now and it's exactly as described.

Seriously guys how have you managed to get around Google's protections here? ;)

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

#25
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

My navigation was: - home page - /house - /info/sensors - /house/add I went to the last page because I was curious that you had to register _before_ buying. At this last page I saw my gmail username pre-populated in the form automatically which freaked me out (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account name was possible) and I closed the page, I did not submit (voluntarily) any info. Then within a couple…

+1

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

#26
post #8

I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?

This looks like a nice tool to have (if a bit expensive), but seriously, a bug like that is a real deal killer. Having my house appear after clicking a link freaked me out.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

#28
post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not the expected behavior. We use Google Accounts for Sign In, but it should present you with a window that says "sign in to wattvision" and ask you for your password again, even if you are already logged in to Gmail. We'll confirm / try to repro on our end. Any other info you have is appreciated. UPDATE: We definitely want to fix this, we do not want to surprise or inadvertently sign up users. That's not our…

My navigation was: - home page - /house - /info/sensors - /house/add I went to the last page because I was curious that you had to register _before_ buying. At this last page I saw my gmail username pre-populated in the form automatically which freaked me out (I didn't even know grabbing a visitor's google account name was possible) and I closed the page, I did not submit (voluntarily) any info. Then within a couple…

And me as well.

Re: Wattvision (YC W09) Now Shipping

#29
post #8

I was logged into my gmail account and after visiting this site, without signing up for anything I get a welcome email, WTF?

This looks like a nice tool to have (if a bit expensive), but seriously, a bug like that is a real deal killer. Having my house appear after clicking a link freaked me out.

Having your house appear? Did they somehow pull your physical address info?
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