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Chris Messina
@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
I'm curious what they mean by "real world"... I'd expect to be able to text things in real life, like a phone telephone poll or goldfish tank and get a response.
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Tom Hadfield
@tomhadfield · CEO, Message.io
@chrismessina If your goldfish tank has an API, then there will be a Prompt command! We've got thousands of commands in the pipeline. You'll be able to send "@nest +5" to change the temperature on your thermostat, or "@rachio on" to turn on your sprinkers, or "@philipshue off" to turn off your lightbulbs. In addition to IoT device control, we're also working on building Prompt commands for commerce - like "@drizly 12 heineken" to get beer on-demand, or "@dominos large hawaiian" to get a pizza delivered. There's an entire ecosystem to be built. Our vision is to be the first platform with one million bots.
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Rachel Kern
@willkernforfood · Product Designer
@chrismessina My initial guess was IoT. I can't wait for my friend to show me how to make my plants tweet when they need to be watered. :)
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Tom Hadfield
@tomhadfield · CEO, Message.io
@willkernforfood @chrismessina If you buy one of these http://www.parrot.com/usa/produc... then we'd be happy to build a @parrot command for you on Prompt!
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Simone Brunozzi
@simon · VP, Chief Technologist
@willkernforfood @chrismessina Rachel, I can't wait for my plants to be left alone instead :)
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Ali Ahmed
@syedaliahmed · Tech Entrepreneur
@tomhadfield @chrismessina @nest @rachio @philipshue @drizly @dominos Seems great at first glance, but could be too much effort having to remember all the different command lines and defining services to work seamlessly, but wish you all the best.
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Colin Pirillo
@colindevs
@tomhadfield @chrismessina how are you planning to build so many commands from APIs? Have you considered any open source, community driven approaches? I bet if you let developers build a command for each API they were interested in, you'd have a command for everything!
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Tom Hadfield
@tomhadfield · CEO, Message.io
Hi @colindevs. Absolutely - Prompt is an open platform with tools for third party developers to build their own Prompt commands. Please reach out if you're interested in learning more. By the way, I love "a command for everything" - that's the vision!!
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Tom Hadfield
@tomhadfield · CEO, Message.io
@syedaliahmed If you find a command useful, we think you'll remember it. Pretty difficult to forget @uber or @nest!
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