ianawilson

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by ianawilson 12y ago
I just added both a more detailed description of the product (based on this question, actually) and a couple of screens we have. Hopefully that helps to give a better idea of what we're doing!
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Glad you're interested! My email is ian (at) crowsnest (dot) io. Alternatively, you can signup on the front page, and I'll reach out to you a little later today.
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Hi, yes, I'm a cofounder from Crowsnest. There are two pieces: 1) A firmware library that runs on the device that has APIs for logging, assertions, and we're planning some other features to help gather data from the device (config
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Crowsnest – Crash Reports for Connected Products(crowsnest.io)
37 points by ianawilson 12y ago|7 comments
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Indeed, NAT-piercing isn't new or even revolutionary. It's a small feature of our mission to make building IoT apps as painless and fast as possible. Our main goal is to build an ecosystem of ready-to-use devices and a RESTful API
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Thanks, this is great feedback. We are considering a community tier of pricing aimed more at hobbyists to suit what you're talking about. We're currently targeting startups who are building creative IoT apps and want to iterate qu
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Not exactly polyfill, although the idea is related. Crowsnest is trying to help reduce boilerplate for IoT / device-driven applications. Crowsnest provides cloud infrastructure, two-way communication with your devices that works across
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by ianawilson 12y ago
If you're available, we would love to set up a call or video chat to hear more about your experience! Send me an email: ian at crowsnest dot io
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by ianawilson 12y ago
The idea is that Crowsnest organizes what devices can do into capabilities, and anyone can build a plugin for anything using our device integration framework. A plugin maps between what Crowsnest knows as capabilities and the actual calls t
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Yeah, releasing parts of Crowsnest as FOSS is a hotly debated topic internally. We would certainly be interested to talk to anyone who has experience running a business with a core product that is open source, especially if they were able t
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Skynet provides cloud infrastructure for IoT applications, but Crowsnest is aiming to have a few additional things on top of that: - a rich ecosystem of device integrations, - a framework for quickly creating new integrations, and
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Yup, that's exactly it!
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by ianawilson 12y ago
The device integration framework is currently Python running on an RPi, so if you have Python libraries to talk on any of these protocols, we're trying to make it easy to build plugins that will support devices that talk via these diff
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by ianawilson 12y ago
Our API / cloud service is not. The device integration framework (which runs locally on the RPi) is going to be open source, so that anyone can create plugins / integrations for any IP device. Although we don't have it specce
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by ianawilson 12y ago
While part of the service is to act as a proxy between the RPi and the Internet, we're also trying to help save devs from needing to build out the device integrations (eg, lightbulbs, cameras, etc). We're trying to take care of th
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by ianawilson 12y ago
We started out with cameras because they are pretty rich devices, and we wanted to start with just one device. We are currently working on an open source plugin system with the intention that anyone will be able to add IP devices to Crowsne
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Show HN: Crowsnest – API for the Real World(crowsnest.io)
61 points by ianawilson 12y ago|38 comments