The platform looks interesting, but the fact that you're offering an ICO makes me immediately wary of your company.

I tried Snips for a bit the other day on my Raspi 3, and it worked as advertised, detection was great, making skills was simple, and it's much better than Alexa in that you don't have to say "tell <app> to <command>", the entire namespace is immediately available. It's all that I've wanted from such a device.

I do agree, however, that the ICO makes the whole thing feel scammy. It's a terrible idea, I guess they got lured in by the promise of free money and shoehorned a token into their app.

Agreed.

The true crypto use case - raising money without consequences. A shitty use case, but one none the less.

gah, what the heck is wrong with that woman's head on the homepage. Nightmare fuel.

That is... bizarre. It looks like they had a simple head originally and then attached it to a too large body (facing the wrong way), and then tossed some hair on it to not look like it was a sockless handpuppet coming out of the neck

Looks like the video got vertically squished?

As I said downstream, I tried Snips and it's great, so I hope it catches on. Everything works as advertised, it sends all recognized commands to MQTT so integration with anything else is pretty much instant, and detection works well.

I thought of buying the hardware to make the Snips device (to support the company financially as well), but I realized that I use my Echo mostly for Spotify (as it's a bit too crippled to use for much else), which Snips wouldn't be able to support.

I still might get/build one for all the home automation I can't use the Echo for, but a big use case is immediately removed if it can't play Spotify.