Excited to share this side project with Product Hunt! A couple months ago, it felt like an utter deluge of political news was happening every day. When I found WTF Just Happened Today?" in its email digest form, I loved the funny/irreverent tone Matt takes, and how much care he takes to be unbiased in his summaries.
I also wanted to learn how to write an Alexa skill for my Echo, so I found a mutual friend (hi @sandimac!) to reach out through and get his blessing. The coding part was really cool to play with (AWS Lambda + Node.js) and SUPER easy. Like 4 hours easy. The approvals process was extremely cumbersome (I don't think they were SUPER stoked to have a skill that gets as close to the line of their Terms of Service with cursing as we do) but a couple months later, we're so excited to see what people think!
If anyone's curious about making an Alexa skill, I'll be around all day to chat. Same with Matt on his experience growing his community.
@staringispolite That's right! Big ups to @sandimac (whom I've never met in person, but feel like I've known for years from using Quibb!) for connecting us! 🤗
👋 Hey PH!
This is Matt, creator of WTF Just Happened Today, a newsletter logging the daily shock and awe in national politics.
I'm super excited about this WTFJHT Alexa skill – not because it's awesome! But because it was contributed by @staringispolite, a community member that volunteered his time to make this! So rad. 👊
Simply ask "Alexa, W.T.F. just happened," and she'll give you the latest US news!
Let us know what you think! Here to answer questions!
https://whatthefuckjusthappenedt...
Source code for WTFJHT: https://github.com/mkiser/WTFJHT
Source code for WTFJHT Skill: https://github.com/staringispoli...
@alwaysunday@staringispolite Hey Andy, unfortunately no. Amazon has some, uh, sensitivities to the F-bomb. We also discovered that "What" is a reserved invocation utterance for Alexa (at least that's our suspicion).
@alwaysunday It's W.T.F. the letters :) In theory, Amazon's terms allow for having people say the actual words, but in practice we couldn't get it approved that way, no matter how much we censored the app/collateral/etc.
@matt_kiser@staringispolite Matt you are KILLING it. Love that WTFJHT has taken off like crazy (despite your already crazy life). Will be installing on my echo ASAP
This is awesome @staringispolite and @matt_kiser! Any plans to release integrations for other platforms? Would love it on Google Home/Now! #TypicalWantAndroidVersion
@matt_kiser@staringispolite the hashtag is key. Glad I could inspire you. 😂 Been using API.AI to create personal bots, and you can deploy to Google Home pretty easily from there. I currently don't have a Google Home, but I'll get one to use WTFJHT when you launch!
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