Show HN: Unioncy – Keep an automated record of your things

Asking to get read&#x2F;write access on my GMail box right away is a non-starter for me. I get that it may help you auto-populate my database, but you really should avoid asking it without any proper popup explaining why you must have this authorization.<p>Ideally you should use a two-step authorization phase, basic-info only for login&#x2F;registration, then once the user gets to see the interface, have a button to extend permissions to read GMail.

These guys spammed the gawker network (kotaku, gizmodo, etc, possibly other sites) for months on every single article. I won&#x27;t be using their service.<p>I visit those sites regularly and saw the spam every day.

Congrats in launching and getting your product to this stage.<p>Unfortunately I do not find it too useful. I buy from a lot of places, Amazon represents perhaps 5% of what I buy so your product doesn&#x27;t add much for me.<p>Have you considered creating an app which has a barcode scanner which populates the item database? It was my understanding that barcodes were unique to each item. Is there not a way to pull the item name from a barcode?<p>This seems preferable to having only Amazon or online retailers. Your current solution doesn&#x27;t do much to help catalogue the hundreds of items laying around my house.

I like this, like a much more useful DeliciousLibrary. However, I HATE that it uses Gmail! Does Amazon not provide an API that it could use? I&#x27;d much rather tools like this used something I can control a lot better. I&#x27;m afraid that post-snowden, there is no way I&#x27;d allow any third-party software access to something as broad as my Gmail account.

Everyday I see one app launched which needs my gmail access. strict NO!!

That&#x27;s a really nice idea with huge potential.<p>I currently use Stuffcard (<a href="http://mystuffcard.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mystuffcard.com</a>), though.

It sounds like a great idea, but thieves might want to own the servers that store this data. On these servers will be a list of products and because of the receipts, very likely the physical address of where they were shipped to and how new they are.<p>Also, although <a href="https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.ssllabs.com&#x2F;ssltest&#x2F;</a> does say the site supports 256bit AES, the unioncy server does not prefer it and under &quot;handshake simulation&quot; every current device will only negotiate a 128bit AES key.<p>Arguing about 256bit v.s 128bit AES on for TLS isn&#x27;t really important though; the risks are all with the data-at-rest and stored on the unioncy servers.<p>In reading the privacy policy it appears that the product information will be used to provide selected and targeted advertising.

The Gmail approach doesn&#x27;t interest me, but a method using Amazon product lists and a search with autocomplete and images (to help me identify the products I don&#x27;t know in detail) would be more useful.<p>Haven&#x27;t tried your product as a result of the Gmail thing so I&#x27;m not sure if you already do this, but you could prompt people with things like:<p>What model fridge do you have? (Delete - I don&#x27;t have a fridge) Washing machine Microwave etc

This sounds like a nice idea, and something that I could benefit from. I even clicked on the &#x27;sign in with Google&#x27; button to have a look, something I wouldn&#x27;t usually do. The next page presents me with the google warnings, including<p>(allow this site to) &quot;View and manage your mail&quot;<p>No! Would anyone other than the devs who wrote this site allow that?! That&#x27;s insane!

That&#x27;s an idea I meant to work on for a while. The potential is enormous.<p>Sorry about the paranoid people that don&#x27;t want to give you access to their mails.<p>Add more semantics. Add other input methods (such as barcode). Add image recognition (hardest part). Add Mechanical Turk classification&#x2F;identification.<p>Good luck.

Hey, nice idea but not really new eh? I recently tested slice.com and itembase.com. Both allow me add products manually or forward emails to them and get the information extracted. So I don&#x27;t have to give access to gmail. How does your service differ from that and why is unioncy better for me?

Even if this might seem useful in theory or on paper, it&#x27;s never going to fly in practice.

&gt; Protected by highly secure 256-bit SSL encryption, no one but you can see and access your information.<p>Assuming you have access to the data on your servers, shouldn&#x27;t that read &quot;no-one but you and the NSA&quot;?

Like others, not interested in the gmail read access. I&#x27;ll sign up if you drop the gmail requirement and simply allow me to add items manually (or forward amazon order emails to somewhere).

i have a folder for this kind of stuff, and not on a computer. <a href="http://i00.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/411/912/331/331912411_939.jpg" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;i00.i.aliimg.com&#x2F;img&#x2F;pb&#x2F;411&#x2F;912&#x2F;331&#x2F;331912411_939.jpg</a><p>that said, it&#x27;s a nice idea, although not for me, because of the above, and because i don&#x27;t want you to have access to my email

I opened the site using my iPhone, not responsive at all --- I&#x27;ll give it a go once am on my PC (hold your horses people, I run Linux on it)