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by ricketycricket 2134 days ago
A recent episode of the Smartlogic podcast[^1] interviewed the Nerves team and discussed this a bit. Their example was something like: you wouldn't build a smart lightbulb with nerves, but you might build the smart bulb hub with it. I think that makes a lot of sense and still fits a very good use case: something low power, but internet connected and possibly serving a UI over a browser or an API to a mobile app. There are a great number of IOT or IOT-adjacent projects that are a good fit for something like this, even if it isn't necessarily appropriate for everything.

[^1] https://smartlogic.io/podcast/elixir-wizards/s4e13a-dojo/