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This post is eliciting different feelings for me. 1. Congratulations on getting a product into a major chain’s distribution network. That is a feat and is something to be proud of. 2. Do I think this product should exist? No. There are services that do this already, the only thing different is making it standalone. I fear it’s just another toy that will sit on the shelf and eventually contribute to the e-waste proble…

1.) Not something I did. I only worked on the software. 4.) Contracted because I wrote the Open Source libraries it uses. I created https://github.com/pion/webrtc and https://webrtcforthecurious.com the company reached out to me because https://github.com/sepfy/libpeer didn't work with Pion. Turned out to be a libpeer bug (which I fixed) > were you really hooked I have been doing hardware + WebRTC with lots of differ…

Excellent, thank you taking the time to respond. It makes sense now and is very clear. Great work!

Re: Show HN: AI toy I worked on is in stores

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already gone. anywhere else to get it? how hard is it to reprogram?

I would DIY it, I think you will have a lot more fun/enjoy the end result more https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45575106 If you do I would love to help!

i'm already DIYing a esp32-based robot...

also, the form factor of the toy is pretty charming!

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