What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its skills

Re:What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its ... by mlchild on Thursday December 28, 2017 @03:35AM (#16020990)

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!

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Re:What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its ... by djrogers on Thursday December 28, 2017 @07:56AM (#16021754)

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.

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Re:What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its ... by mlchild on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:29PM (#16032113)

There is very much the possibility of direct revenue, stay tuned

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Re:What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its ... by bambax on Thursday December 28, 2017 @05:40AM (#16021348)

What ressource would you recommend to get started on building Alexa skills?

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Re:What Amazon's Alexa economy pays the people building its ... by mlchild on Friday December 29, 2017 @04:29PM (#16032117)

Amazon’s Alexa github has a number of solid tutorials/example code

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