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Comment by jalfresi | Hacker News Reader

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'd much rather tools like this used something I can control a lot better. I'm afraid that post-snowden, there is no way I'd allow any third-party software access to something as broad as my Gmail account.

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Just reading https://unioncy.com/how_it_works

"2. We scan for Amazon receipts Unioncy continuously pulls information from Amazon receipts in your inbox to create a collection of your things."

Looks nice in the screen shots but for me that's where it ends until they add register functionality without Google signin!

Same. I would sign up and add everything right now if there were an option to simply enter items manually. A little bit of work on my part would be more preferable to opening up access to my email.

You can in fact add items manually using search inside the app. Although I get your point that you are not comfortable signing up and giving permissions.

Absolutely agree. This looks really useful, but I would rather give it my Amazon credentials than access to my email (plus I don't use gmail for much). Or let me forward Amazon receipts to an address ala TripIt? Some options would be good.

Thanks! We're starting out with Gmail, but we plan to add more ways of building your collection. Amazon doesn't share the data through its API unfortunately.

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