Launch HN: Life Bot (YC S17) – Voice app to help with daily activities
I installed it. Its cool. However, it competes with first class features that are provided by the platform you are running on. Any successful voice platform will also have these features you will need to compete against.<p>Other commenters are right - your differentiators are small and Amazon could implement them with their vast resources in a sprint or two. It&#x27;s just a guess, but Alexa is probably much larger when it comes to people and money backing it.<p>You are going to be competing with any platform you run on. It&#x27;s like you are using Alexa&#x27;s voice recognition component, but then rebuilding the experience on top of it. Kinda weird.<p>Most skills extend or compliment the platform. Now I&#x27;ll have to make sure I use Lifebot instead of Alexa to get a certain feature - its a bad CX if you ask me.<p>How are you making money? I highly doubt Amazon is paying you to compete with them on core platform functionality.<p>Also - you have to you give your phone number for the SMS to work. If you have Alexa and enabled communications - it would even be easy for Amazon to implement &quot;Alexa, send that story to Bob&quot; and then it SMS a link to your friend. Do you have their friends contacts too? etc.<p>If you integrated with IFFTT, or somehow interacted with the first party features to extend them it&#x27;d be interesting, but even still then Amazon is only a few weeks away from doing any one of these things.