I think Mint gives the option to submit details manually if you prefer doing the gathering work to giving a password. This may be an idea for shrooda to alleviate security concerns as well as give an easier way to see if the service works for the casual browser.

There’s an awful lot of information (and actions) in the orange site that shrooda get access to if I give them my login and password. My phone number, that of everyone I’ve called or texted, my home address; the ability to change my plan, change my address, upgrade my phone… everything I can click on, shrooda’s code can “click” on, right?

What next, give away your online banking details and we’ll examine your habits to find you a better current account? Honest, guv.

@ComeOn: We’re sorry you had to wait for your account activation to be emailed to you. Unfortunately, because we do not have complete control over the process of acquiring our users bills, delays can be experienced due to online billing sites downtime or maintenance. We trust you have now received your activation email, if not please contact us at http://www.shrooda.com/contact/ and we’ll look into it for you.

@Harm/@Nick: You’re right, SHROO:DA does not *yet* support account add-ons which as you probably know are so important to certain networks price plan structure, e.g. O2. We’re working to provide this feature as soon as possible.

@Harm: It’s a little more complex than your summary. A single example would be for text messages which are charged for differently by each network depending on whether they are to a UK network, an international number, or sent while roaming. To illustrate this example, the price of a text to an international number varies by 8p per message between networks ! This is one of dozens of examples all of which contribute to the increased accuracy of the SHROO:DA calculation. However, for users like yourself, we do provide the simple “number of minutes, number of messages” calculation at http://www.shrooda.com/estimate/.

Odd, considering my online billing settings have never been touched and are the default settings that I expect the majority of other customers will have.

So, doesn’t work for me.

Shame, as I think it could be a great service.

@Greig Rapley From the looks of it SHROO:DA does not take into account add-ons. Are you planning to add this? All you do now is extract the number of minutes called an number of text messages sent. For only that the price of providing you with my login to my provider is a bit high.

I’ve appreciate they’re probably seeing a huge spike in traffic today, but if you can’t predict – and have a plan in place to cope with – this, what chance to do they have of early adopters having a good experience and returning to recommend this to their friends? A surge in traffic upon launch is something that every major web startup experiences…

I thought I was on a good package (half price tariff for life), but Shrooda then displayed a 20% saving available. I’m very impressed.

Good work guys. I’m sure you’ll be very successful.

Rob

That’s not to mention the fact that my usage varies considerably from month to month so it would be much more useful if it analysed all my previous bills as well.

@Josh Russell: You’re right Josh, SHROO:DA will recommend cheaper price plans based on your current pattern of usage. When you say “plans don’t allow it”, are you talking about fair use policies on data and texts for example, or do you mean mobile users who avoid using their phones too much because of the cost of doing so?

@Ross Bailey: We’re working on supporting 3, would you be interested in joining our beta program? If so, drop us a message at http://www.shrooda.com/contact/