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I just added both a more detailed description of the product (based on this question, actually) and a couple of screens we have. Hopefully that helps to give a better idea of what …

Glad you're interested! My email is ian (at) crowsnest (dot) io. Alternatively, you can signup on the front page, and I'll reach out to you a little later today.

Hi, yes, I'm a cofounder from Crowsnest. There are two pieces: 1) A firmware library that runs on the device that has APIs for logging, assertions, and we're planning some other fe…

Indeed, NAT-piercing isn't new or even revolutionary. It's a small feature of our mission to make building IoT apps as painless and fast as possible. Our main goal is to build an e…

Thanks, this is great feedback. We are considering a community tier of pricing aimed more at hobbyists to suit what you're talking about. We're currently targeting startups who are…

Not exactly polyfill, although the idea is related. Crowsnest is trying to help reduce boilerplate for IoT / device-driven applications. Crowsnest provides cloud infrastructure, tw…

If you're available, we would love to set up a call or video chat to hear more about your experience! Send me an email: ian at crowsnest dot io

The idea is that Crowsnest organizes what devices can do into capabilities, and anyone can build a plugin for anything using our device integration framework. A plugin maps between…

Yeah, releasing parts of Crowsnest as FOSS is a hotly debated topic internally. We would certainly be interested to talk to anyone who has experience running a business with a core…

Skynet provides cloud infrastructure for IoT applications, but Crowsnest is aiming to have a few additional things on top of that: - a rich ecosystem of device integrations, - a fr…

Yup, that's exactly it!

The device integration framework is currently Python running on an RPi, so if you have Python libraries to talk on any of these protocols, we're trying to make it easy to build plu…

Our API / cloud service is not. The device integration framework (which runs locally on the RPi) is going to be open source, so that anyone can create plugins / integrations for an…

While part of the service is to act as a proxy between the RPi and the Internet, we're also trying to help save devs from needing to build out the device integrations (eg, lightbul…

We started out with cameras because they are pretty rich devices, and we wanted to start with just one device. We are currently working on an open source plugin system with the int…