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All good points. With Josh, we're targeting large homes with complex environments. Our goal is to make it super simple to set up, configure, and use Josh. While

All good points. With Josh, we're targeting large homes with complex environments. Our goal is to make it super simple to set up, configure, and use Josh. While Echo + IFTTT + a Wink hub might not sound too complicated to someone on HN, it's far too hacky for a 10,000 sq ft home where the average home owner doesn't want to understand what's truly going on. We're also focused as much on home monitoring and access when you're away from the home as we are on control from within. It might seem subtle, but the number of times you want eyes and ears and the ability to change the environment of your home when away is super important. The longer term play which will take some time to realize is all about AI. We see Josh as an invisible companion that grows with you, understands natural language, and can interact with the connected devices around you.

silverlight 11y ago
Fair enough. I mean in that case I would probably have spent some time in the video showing how easy it was to set up all the devices to work with Josh. Since what you're saying is that while the end result is about the same (currently), the setup is easier. As you said not really for me then since I like having the hackability of using IFTT to do all sorts of things, but I can see how someone in a 10k sqft home might not want to deal with it. Of course that's a pretty small audience, so there you go. "Sell to the classes, eat with the masses", as they say...
dsp1234 11y ago
10,000 sq ft home average home owner Seems like you're targeting multimillionaires. Just looking at the Portland metro area (nowhere near the largest target market), there are about 6 homes currently for sale that are over 10k sqft. Ranging from 1.5M way out in the burbs to 8M+. It's likely going to need quite a lot of polish to have a large uptick for such a small total audience.

silverlight 11y ago

Fair enough. I mean in that case I would probably have spent some time in the video showing how easy it was to set up all the devices to work with Josh. Since what you're saying is that while the end result is about the same (currently), the setup is easier. As you said not really for me then since I like having the hackability of using IFTT to do all sorts of things, but I can see how someone in a 10k sqft home might not want to deal with it. Of course that's a pretty small audience, so there you go. "Sell to the classes, eat with the masses", as they say...

dsp1234 11y ago

10,000 sq ft home average home owner Seems like you're targeting multimillionaires. Just looking at the Portland metro area (nowhere near the largest target market), there are about 6 homes currently for sale that are over 10k sqft. Ranging from 1.5M way out in the burbs to 8M+. It's likely going to need quite a lot of polish to have a large uptick for such a small total audience.