Wiffy

Thanks so much for hunting! At @betaworks, we're going deep into voice interfaces with our new voicecamp accelerator (@thebetacamp). It's important to us to understand the nuances from a consumer perspective. So in preparation, I did a quick hack with my friend @orarbel to make Wiffy. The idea is that when friends come over to your apartment, or guests are in your office, or renters are staying at your AirBnb, they can just say "Alexa, as Wiffy for the wifi password." On the product side, the main learning was around when *NOT* to use voice -- we found that it's actually easier for people to type in their wifi credentials via text message than spell them out via voice. But also found that the Alexa account linking feature is pretty clunky. So our onboarding starts in Alexa and then goes to SMS when appropriate. Would love thoughts from the @producthunt community

Congrats @matthartman 👍 Any way you can submit to non-US Alexa skills stores?

I love this. I wish there was another way to access an Amazon skill via voice on Amazon devices. I can remember "Alexa, what's the wifi password?", but if I don't use a certain skill frequently, it can be difficult to remember the skill name (3 months from now: "Alexa, ask [skill name that I can't remember] what the wifi password is."). I think Amazon will have to solve for this eventually as the number of skills in the skill store grows.

How do I change the number?

How does it know what the password is?

I like how you circumvent the Amazon account linking with something that feels way more natural to the user. I was a little worried first that it wouldn't work, as Alexa sometimes has problems with understanding numbers (+ my German accent), but it actually didn't feel tedious at all to tell my number to Alexa, and it got it right as well (after opening the skill the second time, Wiffy told me the number).

I'm guessing it's required to enter in your wifi pass in PT so Wiffy can read it back? Does this pose a security risk?