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by johnwheeler 10y ago
hey, we have the same logo https://feedbackboost.com/ font-awesome FTW!
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Excellent articulation. I feel the same ways about the potential costs of cofounders.
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
You're right - it's addressed at the bottom too "The last part of the quote above, that you need colleagues to cheer you up when things go wrong, hits home for me. When I started developing eBay software, PayPal’s recurring p
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you for reading. I'd extend the discussion to say you don't need investors either. The only participants you need are in your target market. And, you can prepare to bring in outside successors in the event of death, key pers
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Stop Looking for a Cofounder(medium.com)
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
it depends on what you like to read. mihaly c. is a psychology professor, but very philosophical. i love his work. im reading creativity now.
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
I know why I did well to start. I had low expectations and no basis for self-comparison. I focused on the work instead of the results, so the results ended up being pretty good.
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
This article hits home. Five years ago, I created a SaaS app that did well, followed by one that did less so, and another that flopped (all eBay selling software). New projects weren't having as much an impact and making me feel good,
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
It's all incremental improvement in different areas that sum up to a better overall experience. Sites are like 5 megs now.
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
pretty!
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Bah no API! https://mobile.twitter.com/wirecutter/status/532929880665890... I was going to try and dazzle you. I don't think Amazon provides a hook to do orders (although you can reorder past purchases on Ec
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. I'll make sure and keep getting to the point. I invested in a Blue Snowball mic, and I'm making more videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FjlV1PeK2w https://www
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you. I experienced the same feelings. It's interesting how eliminating the extra button press makes the technology not 20% more useful, but maybe 10x more useful (IMO). There are constraints. For example, the Alexa service can&#x
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you! Thank you for the correction with iQuarius Media too!
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you Steve. I don't know much about Siri or Google Now voice activation APIs ("Hey Siri" and "OK Google"). Also (as you're probably aware), Google just came out with an Echo competitor called Google Home,
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Hi Everybody! For the last month I've been working on a Flask extension called Flask-Ask I want to plug. The "Ask" part stands for the "Alexa Skills Kit", which is the service behind the Amazon Echo family of device
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Show HN: Flask-Ask – Amazon Echo Development in Python(johnwheeler.org)
107 points by johnwheeler 10y ago|13 comments
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
You're getting a lot of good help here, so this is just a comment. My name is John. Contact me at john@johnwheeler.org if you have an idea for an Amazon Echo application to help blind people.
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Thank you!
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Starred. This looks fantastic. I've been exploring lambda deployment options for my new Alexa skills kit library, since Amz pushes lambda. https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask . Can you please explain any diffe
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Yes! I just put mine up a month ago - not discoverable for "Python Alexa" or any keywords. Working on it :-) So for the differences - Alexa Skills are deployable as AWS Lambda functions or behind HTTPS. Currently, ask-alexa-pykit
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Hi dozzie! Please check out the samples directory for client code: https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask/tree/master/samples These are direct ports from the Java samples: https://github.com
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
"Amazon Alexa skills JS API...There isn’t really any alternative right now..." I want to take this opportunity to plug an Alexa Skills Kit API (in Python) I just dropped: https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-a
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
Hi Everybody! For the last month I've been working on a Flask extension called Flask-Ask I want to shamelessly plug. The "Ask" part stands for the "Alexa Skills Kit", which is the service behind the Amazon Echo fami
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Show HN: Flask-Ask – Amazon Echo Development in Python(johnwheeler.org)
2 points by johnwheeler 10y ago|1 comments
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by johnwheeler 10y ago
I just released my first Flask extension called Flask-Ask for developing Amazon Echo skills https://github.com/johnwheeler/flask-ask Flask is a fantastic, minimal framework, and Mitsuhiko did so much to help new devel