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Comment by ok_dad

https://utilityapi.com/about

I think UtilityAPI was founded by "tech people" as well. I wonder if you have any specific examples or comparisons that would make me want to use your service over a well-established company?

I work in the energy industry, and while I would love to just try out your service for comparison, I don't have the time. Your site is very lacking in details.

Also, you said you know how to build a "really good developer experience" without "lack of clear documentation", but the most basic endpoint you have for collecting energy usage intervals (https://pelm.readme.io/reference/get_accounts-account-id-int...) does not have a good example for the data you return for a 200 response; I can't tell what the actual data will look like! You state it's tuples with `(timestamp, value)` but do not show an actual example with tuples in your docs. Compare that to UtilityAPI's docs for the same type of endpoint (https://utilityapi.com/docs/api/intervals) which have a very detailed example.

I would say you have some work to do, but good luck! I would love to see multiple good alternatives for collecting energy utility data.

parent ok_dad 4 years ago

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