home buddy

Inspiration

This idea is inspired from the problems we face everyday forgetting stuff.

What it does

It helps you keep track of (every) thing you own and suggest places to organize new stuff you bring home.

How we built it

We used the AWS Lambda (Node.js) service in the backend to handle Alexa Voice Events and AWS DynamoDB for a database of objects and their locations.

Challenges we ran into

Beginners to the AWS ecosystem as well as Alexa Skills development, we managed to accomplish a great voice-first utility under 36 hours of production!

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It handles the major functionalities like remembering your stuff, suggesting places to keep new items and update the database as per your inputs.

What we learned

AWS Lambda, Node.js, AWS DynamoDB (NoSQL), voice-first UX design

What's next for home buddy

Next step is to make home buddy smarter by making it learn from the available data. The two ambitious plans are to use unsupervised learning to understand where similar items in your home are located and suggest if something seems out-of-place. Another extension is to suggest the most preferred location to keep your stuff based on crowd-sourcing.

Built With

• aws-dynamodb
• aws-lambda
• node.js