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I applaud your hard work. It's only natural that we seek reward. However, from Amazon's point of view, they did not ask you to build it or have obligations to

I applaud your hard work. It's only natural that we seek reward. However, from Amazon's point of view, they did not ask you to build it or have obligations to reward you. They did give you a good social credit but it seems you are interested in more that is not entitled to you. Like you said they have zero obligations and that's where the conversation stops unless you actively ask to be rewarded. Talk to their community make a thread on their forums, make it known and carefully explain your vision and how they are falling short.

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johnwheeler 10y ago
Oh, social credits don't matter at all to me. I do appreciate the person at Amazon who gave it to me though for thinking of me.
- paulftw 10y ago
  So what do you actually want them to do? They wouldn't just start throwing money at every project that has reached 1000 stars on github. Open source projects are always about social credits or doing something for the fun of doing it. In rare cases when they aren't it's always responsibility of the author to find funding or come up with a business model.
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  - johnwheeler 10y ago
    > So what do you actually want them to do? Adopt my framework and put me on the same playing field as their engineers in terms of information and resources. Flask-Ask is just way better than anything they have for Python. Even their Python related tutorials are terrible. Also, they're so focused on JavaScript they neglect a lot of important languages like Python and Ruby. I could see them building their own Flask-Ask on top of Chalice, but I think it's counterproductive they push Lambda so hard for Alexa. Cross pollination I guess. Lamdba doesn't support WSGI (which Flask relies on and Lambda doesn't do unless you use Zappa). Personally, I don't think serverless is a panacea. It's good for some use cases, but nothing beats a VPS with a database on it for the wide majority of things including Alexa.
    - brilliantcode 10y ago
      Did you ask them or do you expect Amazon to read your mind? Where do you get such sense of entitlement? Amazon didn't ask you to write it you volunteer your own time and resources and now you are telling Amazon what they should do.
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      - johnwheeler 10y ago
        No, no entitlement here. I hoped things would work out one way, but they worked out another. From looking at your comments, you have a history of putting words in peoples mouths. You're doing the same thing here.

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johnwheeler 10y ago

Oh, social credits don't matter at all to me. I do appreciate the person at Amazon who gave it to me though for thinking of me.

paulftw 10y ago
So what do you actually want them to do? They wouldn't just start throwing money at every project that has reached 1000 stars on github. Open source projects are always about social credits or doing something for the fun of doing it. In rare cases when they aren't it's always responsibility of the author to find funding or come up with a business model.
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- johnwheeler 10y ago
  > So what do you actually want them to do? Adopt my framework and put me on the same playing field as their engineers in terms of information and resources. Flask-Ask is just way better than anything they have for Python. Even their Python related tutorials are terrible. Also, they're so focused on JavaScript they neglect a lot of important languages like Python and Ruby. I could see them building their own Flask-Ask on top of Chalice, but I think it's counterproductive they push Lambda so hard for Alexa. Cross pollination I guess. Lamdba doesn't support WSGI (which Flask relies on and Lambda doesn't do unless you use Zappa). Personally, I don't think serverless is a panacea. It's good for some use cases, but nothing beats a VPS with a database on it for the wide majority of things including Alexa.
  - brilliantcode 10y ago
    Did you ask them or do you expect Amazon to read your mind? Where do you get such sense of entitlement? Amazon didn't ask you to write it you volunteer your own time and resources and now you are telling Amazon what they should do.
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    - johnwheeler 10y ago
      No, no entitlement here. I hoped things would work out one way, but they worked out another. From looking at your comments, you have a history of putting words in peoples mouths. You're doing the same thing here.