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by krony 1680 days ago
On a much smaller scale, a bad school app experience is the main reason why I built an Alexa app for anyone in our district to easily ask Alexa for the lunch menu daily https://github.com/jeffsheets/alexa-papio-lunch-menu/

Pretty common for school district apps to feel antiquated and hard to use. Definitely a disruptible space.
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dwrowe 1680 days ago
Hello fellow Nebraskan! If you’d extend this to Elkhorn my kids (and I) would think you’re a wizard!
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krony 1680 days ago
Ha, maybe! We got lucky that Papillion’s menu has a json feed. If Elkhorn does too then it’s doable. But seems most districts are stuck in pdf files
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laumars 1680 days ago
Still doable. AWS have a tool for parsing JSON files and turning them into a JSON feed: Textract. Given you’d already be inside the AWS ecosystem building the Alexa skill, it would make some sense leveraging that service.
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krony 1679 days ago
Oh yeah, for sure possible, I just meant doable in the “easily extend the current pattern in an evening or two” kind of way, ha!

But hey, if a district or school menu software company wanted to sponsor it, it could absolutely get done

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