It’s been a wonderful weekend. I’m very thankful to guys at CleanWebHack and all the sponsors.

It all started in April 2011 on Pachube International Internet of Things Hackathon. Will Wagner came up with an idea of quantifying a living space in terms of energy consumption and finding ways to improve. He was there with his friends Brandon and Paul, whom I met at nyhacker townhall event and I jumped in. We ended up as a single team to finish the hackathon in NYC (it was really big in London as we saw through a video conference call.) Even though we had a working app after 15 hours of non-stop hacking and coding, it wasn’t enough to see that Econofy’s great potential.

Later we decided to use Amazon Advertising API to get hand on the wide range of appliances and electronics. Will put a lot of time in scraping the Energy Star spreadsheets to get the data on their energy efficiency. It was getting somewhere, but something was missing. Some glue that holds it together.

After a few google chat brainstorm we settled to implement star ratings for products based on their energy efficiency and roll out the ROI analysis some bits and pieces of which we already had in the codebase.

2.9 e-stars

Now we have humongous amount of work to do and it’s best news for me. Econofy won an audience award and best overall award of CleanWebHack, which means that it is something that people actually want to have. And we really want to build it.