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Re:Launch HN: Seam (YC S20) – API for IoT Devices by ThomasRooney on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:25AM (#36213280)
This is pretty neat! Is the intent to serve small consumers (e.g. people who want to incorporate IoT devices into a smart home), or larger companies (e.g. the IoT manufacturers themselves)?

Would love to get to a place where I could "terraform apply" my IoT devices configuration. Any plans to build this? It's only a small jump from a well-documented API in an OpenAPI spec to a terraform provider.

Re:Launch HN: Seam (YC S20) – API for IoT Devices by __sy__ on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @10:36AM (#36213473)
Most of our customers today are startups and a handful of large enterprise customers. Generally they're trying to connect and control their app users' devices. A common use case is smartlock & thermostat control for Airbnb reservation software. But some of the customers are actually controlling their own devices. This is usually the case for the large one. They have fragmented fleets of devices and can't integrate them all.

Ultimately you can definitely use Seam as a hobbyist. A few people do. I have it running in my house alongside Home Assistant. But we're not ever planning on monetizing that segment.

The terraform is pretty interesting. If you could drop me a note [email protected] with an example configuration, I'd like to discuss it internally.