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How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
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#62This is hilarious! But very practical. Buttons are a simple user interface to say one thing. And the phone call on the other side of the system is great. Google's Paper Signals project allow for a more complex input: voice commands. https://papersignals.withgoogle.com/ I can see demand for tons of customized versions of both of these projects. The business model is broken though. Customized hardware or software is ex…
Didn't know about Papersignals. Looks awesome (also, for kids). Have you built anything with it yet? What's the developer experience like?
I can't believe I haven't seen this. I consider myself pretty connected, I read HN and have a robust set of reddits and githubs. They should have done more press for this!
This is such a neat project. I want to get some paper signals going up at my house tomorrow. I just so happen to have a jar full of 30 microservos from a project that didn't work out and a couple of the same microcontrollers they are using sitting here... but still, papercraft + IoT. I really like it.
I like the idea of making paper signals for my development team related to sprints, epics, and other task countdown. I think there's something about it that would really make a difference in work.
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#63It's a nice article, but seems like a deliberate cook-up by the twilio PR team. In light of the recently announced twilio-AWS partnership, the article seems even more concocted
True! He probably had the child just because of the AWS kickbacks.
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#64Re: How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
True! He probably had the child just because of the AWS kickbacks.
That and your sycophancy here.
I could care less about amazon or twillio. There literally just aren't easily accessible other buttons / SMS tools if you go look. Nothing about this is pandering to them, I just think it's a bit reductive to say this guy made this post as a promo.
Alternate reality version of the post:
Here's my kubernetes SIP/XMPP/WebRTC orchestration to do SMS and an arduino button I designed with STL files so you can 3D print it yourself. Everything is open source to toilet train your kid! I definitely used my time appropriately!
EDIT: After re-review I realize this man could just not have a child at all. It could definitely be contrived and potty training probably doesn't need Amazon's weird button that orders more soap. I guess all I'm saying is that I could see myself trying out the same thing and the solution doesn't feel that contrived to me.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
That and your sycophancy here.
I could care less about amazon or twillio. There literally just aren't easily accessible other buttons / SMS tools if you go look. Nothing about this is pandering to them, I just think it's a bit reductive to say this guy made this post as a promo. Alternate reality version of the post: Here's my kubernetes SIP/XMPP/WebRTC orchestration to do SMS and an arduino button I designed with STL files so you can 3D print it…
Author here.
I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular.
I prefer not to post pictures of my kids publicly out of respect for their privacy, so I won't prove to you that I'm a dad, but some cursory twitter-stalking should provide sufficient evidence that I'm not a marketing shill for either AWS or Twilio.
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#67I just looked up the IoT button. $20, non-replaceable battery, not shipping to Canada. I don't have the skill or resources to assemble it in a nice form factor, but how are there not dozens of cheap Chinese alternatives? An ESP8266 is like $5 and the rest of the parts are probably less than a dollar. I guess it's just a bit surprising that I cannot find a cheap alternative to buy a dozen of.
The Amazon button probably has higher build quality than anything you can replicate or buy for $5+1. That's probably overkill for most applications aimed at adult users, but it's worth it here. Is that cheap Chinese alternative toddler-survivable? Will the enclosure break and will delicious shiny metal sharps fall out? Is it reasonable water resistant? Is it coated in cheap lead paint that will come off when (not if)…
$6 products from China can be really good quality. I mean, after all, Amazon no doubt gets these buttons made for less than $1 in China themselves.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could care less about amazon or twillio. There literally just aren't easily accessible other buttons / SMS tools if you go look. Nothing about this is pandering to them, I just think it's a bit reductive to say this guy made this post as a promo. Alternate reality version of the post: Here's my kubernetes SIP/XMPP/WebRTC orchestration to do SMS and an arduino button I designed with STL files so you can 3D print it…
Author here. I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular. I prefer not to post pictures of my kids publicly out of respect for their privacy, so I won't prove to you that I'm a dad, but some cursory twitter-stalking should provide sufficient evidence that I'm not a marketing…
I dig it. I would try the same thing. Then again I’m a sycophant. :) Thanks for the write up!