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Pebble is dead. Long live Pebble! rebble

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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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What is Pebble? They’re smartwatches

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What happened?

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So what?

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Web Services

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

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What can we do?

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

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How do we run it? Serverless

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

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How many users?

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How many users?

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How many users?

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How many users? “…fifty thousand?”

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A diversion: money

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Make a budget

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

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

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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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Crazy Hack Time

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