How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS IoT Button

Re:How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS I... by stuntkite on Thursday March 08, 2018 @02:47PM (#16547063)

I could care less about amazon or twillio. There literally just aren't easily accessible other buttons / SMS tools if you go look. Nothing about this is pandering to them, I just think it's a bit reductive to say this guy made this post as a promo.

Alternate reality version of the post:

Here's my kubernetes SIP/XMPP/WebRTC orchestration to do SMS and an arduino button I designed with STL files so you can 3D print it yourself. Everything is open source to toilet train your kid! I definitely used my time appropriately!

EDIT: After re-review I realize this man could just not have a child at all. It could definitely be contrived and potty training probably doesn't need Amazon's weird button that orders more soap. I guess all I'm saying is that I could see myself trying out the same thing and the solution doesn't feel that contrived to me.

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Re:How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS I... by dgouldin on Thursday March 08, 2018 @10:47PM (#16549666)

Author here.

I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular.

I prefer not to post pictures of my kids publicly out of respect for their privacy, so I won't prove to you that I'm a dad, but some cursory twitter-stalking should provide sufficient evidence that I'm not a marketing shill for either AWS or Twilio.

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Re:How I Helped Potty-Train My Kid Using Twilio and an AWS I... by stuntkite on Sunday March 11, 2018 @05:12PM (#16564821)

I dig it. I would try the same thing. Then again I’m a sycophant. :) Thanks for the write up!

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