Energy Usage Personal Dashboard

Homeowners want to understand and reduce their energy bills but lack easy tools to track real-time usage. Build a consumer app that connects to smart meters and displays energy consumption by appliance, with tips to reduce usage and optimize costs.

Smart meter rollouts in the US and UK have created real data access that didn't exist five years ago, and rising electricity prices since 2022 have sharpened consumer motivation to actually look at that data. Google Nest and Sense are the closest incumbents, with Sense specifically solving the appliance-level disaggregation problem with dedicated hardware — competing on software alone means either accepting coarser data or depending entirely on utility API access, which remains inconsistent across providers. The $500–2k/mo revenue band reflects the core problem: consumers are notoriously unwilling to pay subscriptions for utility dashboards, so that ceiling likely requires either a freemium-to-premium funnel with high churn or a B2B pivot toward landlords or energy brokers. The most likely failure mode is utility API fragmentation — if integrations only cover a handful of providers cleanly, the addressable market stays too narrow to build momentum.