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by mlchild 3101 days ago
Shameless plug: I’m the co-founder of a company building entertainment & games on Alexa and we’re hiring node.js engineers in SF Bay.

We are seed funded and looking to continue growing our user numbers and team, email me if you want to hear more!

2 comments

Honest question - why would you do this? Without any possibility of direct revenue for any skills you build, what’s the motivation? It seems that all you’d be doing is enriching the Alexa ecosystem out of your own pocket.
There is very much the possibility of direct revenue, stay tuned
What ressource would you recommend to get started on building Alexa skills?
Amazon’s Alexa github has a number of solid tutorials/example code