Lazy IoT - Control your environment with one easy keyboard shortcut

Thanks so much @thomgroutars for hunting Lazy! 🙏 Hello World. I am excited to be here and strangely a bit anxious as well! I built Lazy to let anyone control their IoT devices and services from one place, thanks to one easy shortcut. I can literally spend hours on creating an automation that will save me a fraction of a second a day. I concede, it is not the most efficient use of my time but anyone who’s obsessed with productivity tools like me will understand. It’s not so much about saving time that it is about the gratifying pleasure of knowing that everything works as you set out to do. This time I felt that using my smartphone to trigger my devices would often end up with me losing my precious flow... I started thinking that it would be more efficient to use my keyboard. So I solved the problem with the Lazy command line. Of course, It's not complicated on smartphones, for example on iPhone the Shortcut app is perfect to put your webhooks and use your smartphone as a remote control. But when you are coding, writing an email or working on an important topic on your laptop you do not want to go and take your smartphone to turn on the lights for instance. Also, I do not know about you but when I am deep in work, I do not want my smartphone to be close to me because it can easily distract me with useless notifications. I needed a way to activate my connected objects without breaking my flow. If you are interested by the behind scene of Lazy : I tell the full story in this post :https://medium.com/@ahmedmen/wha.... You will find the hacks I learned along the way, and how I automated domestic chores. I hope it will give you some inspiration on how to use Lazy and how to be more productive at home. Here is also a few examples on how Lazy people use it : https://www.lazy-app.com/usecase... I would love to hear your quick (or extensive) feedback =) Please have a play around with it!

@thomgroutars @ahmedmen @demtzu This app and your story speaks to me. Didn't realize I wanted something like this until I read this post. Thank you for making this and you keep doing you!

Congrats Ahmed, such a well rounded product 💯

@jijosunny Thanks Jijo, but It's me who congrats you! I'll be in SF soon, would be a pleasure to have a coffee with THE coffee guy :)

@thomgroutars @ahmedmen @school_4_ants James, thank you very much for your lovely comment, it means a lot to me!

@pierrickgt I love the comparison Pierrick, thanks for asking! I am a big fan of Alfred, and huge user of Zapier. For now I just focus to create an experience where users can control their home straight from their keyboard without stopping what they're doing. You could do a workflow with Alfred but with more setup time; also your devices will be mixed with files, bookmarks and apps, etc. which can be confusing. The idea of the V2 is to integrate IFTTT and Zapier inside Lazy to avoid creating webhooks. I wanted to have the users’ feedback before building that V2, and do something that matters for them!

@pierrickgt I kind of wish this were just a really polished Alfred extension.

@pierrickgt @chrismessina stay tuned, some cool stuff coming soon : )

@mehdi_b Mehdi! A lovely comment to read bro. Thank you for your continued support 🤗 Can’t wait to manage Lazy through Cycle app!!

@deadcoder0904 You said it! As this good old Bill Gates says : "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." 🤓

@rastakik_ Thank you so much Killian :) Glad you like it!

@nicolas_schweitzer Thank you my man! 🤗Gives me good inspiration to keep the quality up! Cheers!

@thomas_pouillevet Many thanks Thomas, really appreciated mate👌Inspiring me to keep the value high :)

@anas_ameziane Thank you so much Anas! A linux version is not on the roadmap yet but I want to see what’s going on with the launch :) I already feel that a lot of people interested in IoT are not on the apple ecosystem!

@luqa Awesome Feedback Luca. Thank you!

Such a lovely comment Orhan. Thank you. Regarding the video you give me a great opportunity to recommend ScreenSpace Studio from @dfanton I highly recommend that tool, very easy to manage if you have no video editing skills!