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Calculate your carbon footprint based on your purchase history and understand where you stand. Choose a project or technology you believe in. See your money become part of the solution with a monthly offset to eliminate your calculated carbon footprint.

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Assad Aboultaif
Maker
Hi Hunters! Thanks @kevin for hunting us. We are Assad and Jeffrey, founders of Jules, and we are excited to share Jules with you today. The Problem People care about climate change, they are willing to spend money to combat it but they don’t do anything about it because it’s too inconvenient. They are left with one of two choices: large drastic lifestyle changes or small, non-impactful actions. The Solution Meet Jules, the app that allows you to offset your carbon footprint entirely and effortlessly with an easy-to-manage monthly subscription. How Does It Work 1. Understand your impact: Before you can do something about your impact, it’s best to truly understand it. Jules can help by calculating your carbon footprint based on your actual consumption. We look at your purchases using your bank account and credit cards. That way, you have an accurate snapshot of your impact. 2. Discover new solutions: Once you know your carbon impact, you can navigate Jules’ options to neutralize it. By browsing our partners, you can select one that best fits your lifestyle. When you choose a project or technology that you believe in, it makes reducing your carbon footprint that much easier! We have worked with www.patch.io on aggregating most of these projects. 3. Become carbon neutral: See your money become part of the solution with a monthly offset to eliminate your calculated carbon footprint. Your Jules subscription varies based on consumption and the project you support. The cost can be as little as $7 a month – less than a streaming service! It’s climate action on autopilot. Projects We Support 1. Reduce Emissions: We’ve partnered with the Carbon Lighthouse Association to allow you to donate so they can purchase pollution permits away from polluters and avoid emissions from happening in the first place. 2. Restore Forests: We are working with TIST via our partner Patch to plant millions of trees while generating long-term carbon-credit income for smallholder Kenyan farmers. 3. Support Renewables: We are working with Bluesource via our partner Patch to support ​the India Gujarat State Wind Farm project aims to help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by using renewable wind energy. 4. Remove Carbon: We are working with Charm Industrial via our partner Patch to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere, convert biomass into a stable, carbon-rich liquid and then pump it deep underground. Our mission is to enable climate action for everyone. We believe channeling collective consumer power can spark meaningful progress in the fight against climate change. Please have a look around, and let us show you our vision of how to bring people together to benefit each other and the world.
Ryan Brown
@kevin @assadab Congrats on the launch guys! Let's make it a day for climate tech 👊🏻🌍🥳
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@minia Thank you! Let us know what you think.
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
Thanks everyone! At Jules, we are committed to make climate action easier for everyone. Please, let us know if you have any feedback or comment about the app. Feel free to email me at assad@meetjules.com
Jeffrey Nolte
Maker
@kevin @assadab @fares_aktouf Thanks a million! let us know what you think of the product.
Jeremy Nagel
@kevin @assadab @minia how do get accurate emissions intensity data without having line item level data? I can go to the supermarket and buy lentils or I can buy beef. There is a vast difference in emissions intensity between those two purchases but I imagine you use the average for all products sold by that retailer?
Neddes
Hey! Could you elaborate how you differ from Wren? https://www.wren.co For me the lack of transparency of team/founders on the site makes it a bit less trustworthy.
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@eric_de_zeeuw That's a great question. We have two main differences: 1. Most carbon offset apps are based on a carbon questionnaire you have to manually fill out while we pull your purchase history via Plaid to continuously tell you your actual carbon footprint. 2. Everyone focuses uniquely on carbon offsets. Which offset emissions AFTER they have happened. We do offer these types of offsets while also offering another option that will allow you to donate to purchase pollution permits away from polluters in highly regulated carbon markets like RGGI: https://www.rggi.org/. This is done via the Carbon Lighthouse Association. If you want to learn more about me and Jeffrey, here are our LinkedIn profiles: 1. Jeffrey Nolte: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff... 2. Assad Aboultaif: https://www.linkedin.com/in/assa... Feel free to reach out to me if you have any additional feedback or questions :)
Lenny Leemann
Looks awesome! Great use of the Connect Earth API as well! Congrats on the launch!!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@lenny_leemann Thanks Lenny! @alexander_lempka and @nicolas_carmont have been very supportive while integrating the Connect Earth API. I would totally recommend it to anyone in the climate tech space.
Lenny Leemann
@alexander_lempka @nicolas_carmont @assadab Definitely a great product and team, we are about to start integrating ourselves :)
Nicolas Carmont
@assadab @lenny_leemann We are super excited about the use-cases you have and the positive climate impact you create! A pleasure to be partnered with you to create a greener future! 🌍🚀
Congrats on the launch! 🏆
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@ming_xu1 Thanks! Feel free to check it out and share any feedback!
Amazing product and congrats for the launch! Super nice and clean product demo ✨✨✨
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@andrejgotova Thank you! Let us know if you have any feedback or comments about the app!
Looks great!
Amber Paige
That looks really impressive, congrats!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@amberpaige Thank you!
Shushant Lakhyani
Congratulations on the launch!!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@shushant_lakhyani Thank you! Let us know what you think about the app!
Michael Silber
This feels like a useful tool to help climate charities get recurring donations, which I love. That being said, I think individual changes are mostly irrelevant — I'd love to be proven wrong. I have an innate skepticism whenever we try to shift responsibility onto individuals, rather than focusing on holding industries and governments accountable. Do you have any wise words for someone like me who already has a recurring donation to the NRDC (https://www.nrdc.org/)?
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@product_at_producthunt Thanks for sharing. At Jules, we believe that there are two ways of enacting change: 1. You vote your values in the ballot box. We believe that organizing and advocacy are pivotal in enacting change but can be at times painfully slow. 2. Spend your values. You can spend money to punish companies that don't align with your values, support the development of new climate solutions, and buy and retire carbon permits from highly regulated carbon markets, forcing heavy industry polluters to change their practices. We have decided to focus on the second way. How? 1. Now users can develop a sense of how their consumption habits have an impact. Eventually, we want to be able to tell them what brands and stores where they spend their money align with their values. 2. One of our verticals is called Reduce Emissions. This one enables you to donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China. 3. We believe that carbon offsets such as carbon capture and reforestation need to be part of the plan to hold temperature increases below 1.5 Celcius. As more money goes into these solutions, we believe that the cost will go down, hence, allowing more consumers to engage in the market. The goal of Jules is to make consumers realize the power of positive collective action. We can change the incentive structure of how companies and polluters operate. Feel free to reach out directly to me at assad@meetjules.com if you would like to have a chat!
Hélène SAN
Looks really interesting! congrats on your launch🚀
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@helene_san Thanks! Feel free to download the app and let us know what you think.
Esus 🛡️
Congrats on the launch! I wasn't able to find it in the FAQ's. What languages/platforms is this built on? Looks very clean.
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@jamesskon Hi James! The app is only in English and it's built on React Native which allows us to have it both in the App Store and Google Play Store.
A few weeks back, I reviewed a similar launch for SaaS businesses. I was saying that would be good to be able to plug into your personal accounts and calculate your footprint, not just company expenses. And there comes Jules! Awesome work crew
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@florin_biro thank you so much! Let us know what you think of the app!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@karimsaif Thanks Karim! Let us know if you have any feedback about the app!
Bahriye Şevval Gülteki
Congrats on your launch!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@bahriye_sevval_gulteki Thanks! Feel free to share any feedback!
Yash Verma
Congrats on the launch! 🎉
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@yxshv Thank you so much! Let us know what you think!
Nicolas Carmont
Amazing product! Makes it super easy to automatically start tracking your CO2 and having a positive climate impact! 🙌 Glad to be partnered with you!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@nicolas_carmont Thank you and the Connect Earth team for the support along the way!
Christophe Bourlon Renna
Looks amazing guys, really excited for this!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@christophe_bourlon_renna Thanks! Feel free to share any feedback about the app!
Swathi
looks impressive. congrats on the launch!
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@swathidm Thanks! Feel free to have a look around the app!
Niklas Hatje
Any plans to support the download in Germany? :)
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@thenikk We do support downloads in any country BUT the carbon footprinting for your purchase history is only available for US accounts. However, you can choose to skip it and base your calculation on you the average carbon footprint of someone from Germany which will enable you navigate through our climate solutions within the app.
Mike Staub
Should we just put all our collective effort into a carbon tax? Relying on altruistic consumer behavior is not scalable.
Assad Aboultaif
Maker
@mikestaub Thanks for the comment! Our Reduce Emissions vertical does something similar to that. You can donate to the Carbon Lighthouse Association which in return uses your money to purchase and retire carbon permits in RGGI(a cap and invest carbon market in a number of Northeastern states). This forces heavy industry polluters to reduce emissions while the money you spent on the permit is used for state green initiatives. Also, this will drive up the cost of carbon permits for polluters which will eventually force them to change. There's also regulated carbon markets like this in California, the EU, and China.
Mike Staub
@assadab I just worry that products like this distract from larger political efforts by shifting the blame to consumers. Why not use this money to lobby the federal government to create a carbon market like California's for all states?