Rebble.io by Peach Hack (#PonyDev @ BronyCon 2018)

A 10 minute lightning talk at BronyCon 2018's Pony Programming panel. Find more slides at http://developer.horse

Presented by Peach Hack https://twitter.com/KatharineBerry

https://rebble.io

Transcript

1. Pebble is dead. Long live Pebble!
   rebble
   

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2. Peach Hack
   • Working on Google Cloud
   • Failed to make smartglasses at Intel
   • Used to make watches at Pebble
   • I make some pony games:
   ponytone.online, rpg.horse
   @KatharineBerry
   

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3. What is Pebble?
   They’re smartwatches
   

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4. What happened?
   

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5. So what?
   

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6. Web Services
   

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7. Web Services
   • Pebble appstore
   • Firmware updates
   • Language packs
   • Notification icons
   • Timeline
   • Dictation
   • Weather
   • Notification icons
   And more…
   

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8. What can we do?
   

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10. rebble · web services
    A product of the Rebble Alliance, LLC
    

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12. How do we run it?
    Serverless
    

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13. How many users?
    “I dunno, maybe a thousand at most?”
    

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14. How many users?
    

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15. How many users?
    

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16. How many users?
    

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17. How many users?
    “…fifty thousand?”
    

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18. A diversion: money
    

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19. Make a budget
    

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20. APIs are expensive
    Dictation: $110,000 / year
    Weather: $260,000 / year
    

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21. Freemium
    • Basic service: free
    • Dictation and weather: $3/month (or $33/year)
    (I hate that word)
    

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22. Subscription enforcement
    “voice": {
    "languages": [
    {
    "endpoint": "pebble-eng-usa.nuancemobility.com",
    "four_char_locale": "en_US",
    "six_char_locale": "eng-USA"
    }

    // ...
    ]
    },
    "weather": {
    "url": "https://api.weather.com/v1/geocode/$
    $latitude$$/$$longitude$$/?api_key=whatever&language=$
    $language$$&units=$$units$$"
    },
    

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23. Crazy Hack Time
    

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24. Crazy Hack Time
    “voice": {
    "languages": [
    {
    "endpoint": "pebble-eng-usa.nuancemobility.com",
    "four_char_locale": "en_US",
    "six_char_locale": "eng-USA"
    }

    // ...
    ]
    },
    

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25. That’s it!
    Have a pebble? Want it to keep working? rebble.io
    

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