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by noahsark769
3361 days ago
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I'm working on an Amazon Alexa app that can send your phone arbitrary push notifications. Ever since I bought a dot, I've been frustrated with the relatively high friction of sending data from the dot to my phone (why do I have to open the Alexa app to see the full weather forecast? why can't Alexa send me a link to a full Wikipedia article? why can't Alexa start composing a text for me? etc). The solution is to build an app which can route you from an Alexa request (e.g. "Send me the Wikipedia article on X"), to your phone, to the appropriate app. There are relatively few use cases that I've found so far, but I think the Alexa -> Push interface is a cool one to explore, and it's been really cool to work with the platform and finally get to the point where my app receives a notification from the Alexa cloud. Open to suggestions for this if anyone has any as well! |
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