3 ms·
It was always baffling to make non-trivial custom hardware in an age of universal smartphone ownership. Does Amazon even have any good apps? Seems like easy su
by TillE 7y ago
It was always baffling to make non-trivial custom hardware in an age of universal smartphone ownership.
Does Amazon even have any good apps? Seems like easy subscription management and re-ordering is something they could do there.
- nerdjon 7y agoAmazon already has their Subscribe and Save program. I actually really liked the dash buttons for those items that I did not use as regularly, but the number of items like that are pretty low to warrant having more than 2 or 3 of these things. Then when I rebuilt my wireless network I just did not care to move them over.
- maxerickson 7y agoReally liking them and abandoning them anyway is a pretty solid indictment of the idea.
- nerdjon 7y agoI will say this is an issue with iot devices in general right now. When I rebuilt my wireless network, every smarthome device has to be modified and that was the worst part about it. At least these were basically free anyways (you bought them for $5 and then got a $5 credit on your first purchase with them) so I did not feel a need to switch them over.
- bduerst 7y agoThe IoT market is a testing bed for custom hardware ideas. For every 20 dash buttons you eventually get a Nest. It just doesn't seem that way because of survivor bias.