To me, ‘web 2.0’ is fresh, fast and fun. Gridspy is all about making power monitoring fascinating and accessible - that’s the goal. We’re talking numbers you can understand, graphs you can read and systems that you can intuit as you change the amount of power you use. Read on to learn how we deliver on our live data vision all the way from the Nexus to the browser.

Our Gt Barrier offgrid house uses 2 towel rails worth of power each day (4Kwh), but in our apartment in the city we use 13Kwh. That is 3 times more…. Is it the hot water, or the fridge, or the cooking? I just don’t know and that it annoys me. A friend of mine has tells me his power bill for a single parent and child is between $300 and $500 per month. They wonder if someone is stealing the power somehow.

If there is one thing that trying to make my own product has tought me, it is that the old sages are right. The key to success is to choose the very smallest possible subset of your features and focus with razor vision on that and only that. I have spent the last six months doing nothing else, discarding distracting feature after seemingly important improvement until only the key feature remained.

Over the last few months, my mantra has been “All I need is web-based graphs of power usage.”