Joro

Carbon footprint tracker

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Carbon footprint tracker

1.0•1 review•

4 followers

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Track, reduce, and offset the carbon footprint of everything you buy. Tackle climate change as you spend money. Shift your demand away from fossil fuels and decarbonize the economy.

Launch tags:Android•iOS•Climate Tech

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This is sick! I've always wanted something like this that displays consumer carbon output That said, I'd love to know what security measures are in place for consumers to protect their financial information? How does the app use this information? What 3rd parties have access to this data?

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@tabish_gilani That's awesome, and great question. Joro doesn't sell your data to any third-parties. We only make money by taking a transaction fee if a user chooses to buy a carbon offset. We securely connect to a users' financial transaction data using the Plaid API. It's the same API that Venmo and other mainstream fintech apps use. It means we don't have to process or store any sensitive information on our servers, and you can connect your cards with peace of mind. Read more in our FAQs: https://www.joro.tech/faqs

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6yr ago

@tabish_gilani We're so glad to hear that! And thanks for your question! As Sanchali mentioned, Joro uses Plaid as a secure middle-party to protect your financial data. Once you connect with Plaid, Joro is able to use the categories and dollar amounts of your transactions along with additional lifestyle context (diet, home size, etc) to calculate a carbon footprint value for each transaction. Joro will never share this transaction data with 3rd parties. Additionally, if you ever decide to delete your account, Joro respects your right to be forgotten and thoroughly purges all data we've ever stored for you.

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6yr ago

Joro

Maker

@tabish_gilani Sanchali and Alex pretty much covered it all! But if you have any feedback on how we can better communicate how we protect our user's information (maybe mentioning it more in onboarding or throughout the app) that'd be great to hear!

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6yr ago

@sanchali This looks amazing. Do you plan to introduce any incentive mechanism for those reducing their carbon footprints? Can something similar to the carbon credits system be integrated?

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@yjejani this is a super interesting idea that we're thinking about. right now we show users their progress in 'trees' - how many trees it would take to save the same amount of carbon they're saving this year. it would be really interesting if we can give users an incentive - even better if we could embed some sort of carbon credit market in the app. there's potentially a simple way of doing this (e.g. treating 'trees' as a currency) and a more complicated way of doing this (e.g. trying to verify and allow peer to peer trading of credits). would love to bounce ideas on this if you're interested.

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6yr ago

@sanchali Sure, imo easiest would be to integrate an existing carbon exchange. Would be happy to have a chat further. I'm reachable at yjejani[at]gmail.com

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6yr ago

Joro

Maker

@sanchali @yjejani This is great idea. We might have to think about the difference between verifiable carbon reductions (like those based on bank transactions) vs unverifiable (like changing your carbon survey to say you went vegetarian).

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6yr ago

@sanchali @nsreavill Tracking is a major challenge this industry faces. But differentiating them sounds good. I checked the app and realised since it is powered by Plaid, only US based bank cards are accepted. Incase of android devices you can directly track through messages with the user's consent like getwalnut.com does or maybe have an option of uploading the cc statement's pdf on the app. Using OCR the spend can be categorised. Lots of possibilities.

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@nsreavill @yjejani thanks - getwalnut looks like an interesting solution and so does uploading the cc statement or receipt. look forward to bouncing ideas on this - I'll send you an email!

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6yr ago

GPS-A-Sketch

Well executed, and a great cause. Curious why the name Joro? A name of course I like (-:, however curious how/why you guys chose it?

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@joro1 great minds think alike :) Joro means 'protector of the earth' - after the goddess of the earth in Norse mythology.

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6yr ago

GPS-A-Sketch

@sanchali I didn’t know this, thanks for the explanation, love it 🌍❤️!

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@joro1 Thanks Joe!

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6yr ago

Love this. Have been a user for a while now. Not only is it interesting, but it’s actually changing my behavior! It’s encouraging to understand how the little things you’re doing on a daily basis can make a difference.

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6yr ago

Joro

Maker

@christie_horvath Together we matter! Thanks for your support.

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@christie_horvath Thanks Christie! You're beating me on Joro this week, i gotta catch up...

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

Question for the Product Hunt community: Would you be interested in using Joro to build and track sustainable habits? What types of habits would you be interested in tracking or changing to see how it affects your carbon footprint? We're working on a new feature and would love your thoughts.

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6yr ago

Loving how easy the app is to use to track footprint (just connected all my cards; was forgetting too many transactions), buy offsets and now am seeing the training section for the first time. I think I would really benefit from the information on sustainable habits, what kinds of changes others suggest I could make and what would have most impact (e.g. - probably around cooking and energy saving tips on where I live and where I work). I know I am not doing enough and want to do more and learn. I am starting to get more into the challenges -- would it be connected to those or different? Thanks again and all the very best1

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@shamir_tanna1 Thanks Shamir! This is really helpful. Yes - exactly. We're working on potentially "upgrading" certain challenges to have habit tracking, real-time feedback, and content features. Would love to send you some early versions of what this could look like to see how the feature can best meet the needs you mention here.

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6yr ago

@sanchali Definitely! Would love that opportunity! Thanks so much

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6yr ago

I have spent a few weeks researching carbon footprint calculator apps and Joro looks like an outright winner. I think it has great design (although I liked the previous version a little more) and combined two killer features on top of the usual manual entry : automation (in joro’s case thanks to credit card transaction “parsing”) and community / reward a-la strava. I think this is clever but I am curious how the company intends to grow beyond a few hundred or thousands of returning users

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@alex_zilber thank you! very curious what you might have liked about the previous version that you don't see in the new version - would love to hear more detail. we're planning to lean into the community / reward stuff more too, and would welcome any ideas / what you'd like to see. what would keep you coming back?

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6yr ago

@sanchali I think the home page design has changed, hasn’t it? Frankly I find the bar chart graph less attractive- it is definitely needed, but maybe not at the top? To be honest I can’t remember what the page used to look like but think it was neater. I really like the style of your take action and pledges pages - nice neat pictograms. Feels like there are two slightly different styles within the app, maybe the old version was a bit more cohesive?

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6yr ago

@sanchali I will think about what would keep me coming back, but yes I think community is the way to go. I don’t think I can share my Joro successes on Facebook or Instagram, can I?

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@alex_zilber Thanks! We'll take a look at this and keep in mind as we work on the next design iterations.

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6yr ago

Commons

Maker

@alex_zilber That's true - not yet. Great idea, we'll think about how to make this easier.

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6yr ago

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