A few things that you can't do in the official app, but you can do in the Teslabot: (1) voice control - send a voice messages/commands to Teslabot, (2) find out whether your car can go to a destination such as San Francisco with the current charge - Teslabot figures out location of the car, distance to the destination, battery range and answers that question, and also the bot is available from your laptop/desktop.
I was wondering the same thing.. I understand that there are some additional features, but what is keeping Tesla from providing those features in a future app update? This is a cool product, but I wonder about the ability of it to compete with the official app, especially when they are relying on Tesla's API.
We spent a lot of time building a terminal at Sidestep on top of Stripe (and a few other processors). Everything on the in-person payment level was done through an iOS or Android device. The hardest part wasn't managing devices (they could log in on almost any device), but the hardware integration for accepting credit cards. It exists in various places, but none of it could do exactly what we wanted to do. CardFlight was the closest to being a stripe friendly api for swiping cards. Usually the devices for swiping cards were too expensive and the failure rate was high. I don't think swiping hardware has gone down, unless you're using Square.
But hardware costs aside, the ability to fully integrate with the API on a terminal level is the most powerful thing here. It allows for so many cool POS integrations like the one we building at Sidestep.
To me, the coolest thing about this is that it supports Stripe Connect so you can create a POS that's used by others without having to deal with any money transfer yourself. Customer swipes card -> your software -> client's bank account.
We are excited about the use cases of Connect platforms integrating Stripe Terminal! We have seen a lot of platforms like AtVenue and Mindbody building an end-to-end solution for their users -- completely on Stripe.
I don't think the fees stack like that. The terminal page says 2.7% + $0.05 per transaction. I believe that Stripe Connect doesn't take an extra fee, at least not in my experience.
Which makes it interesting for them to have an OS that won't lock particular software out in a play akin to what MS is trying to to to Valve by using their monopoly, a dogmatic Richard Stallman approach to this would ironically save them from that.
It is. For both legitimate and nefarious uses. Bigger software/game devs still use bittorrent to distribute patches and updates—World of Warcraft is an example.
So in my last company, we tried so many different CRMs. Salesforce, Salesforce IQ, Close.io, Pipedrive, and more. What we discovered that none of them allowed us to work the way that we wanted. Integrating with some of their APIs was more work than we wanted to do, they were expensive, and entirely closed source.
Pickle is designed to help you stay lean, allows you to create multiple projects (so you can use it at home, work, side projects, etc) with one login.
For example: People are using it to manage guest lists, for an event/wedding/party, using it to be transparent with their clients (see: https://picklecrm.com/home-buying-timeline.html), to manage personal affairs at home like they children's clubs and groups.
You're definitely right: we should add more screenshots!
Hi everyone, I've put together Whats New App to scratch my own itch. It's a simple way to let your users know what's new in your app/website by copy/pasting a javascript snippet.
When it detects an existing user (identified by a user id, email, or whatever you'd like to use), it'll show them the new updates since the last time they visited.
It's helped me in a few of my projects keep users up to date. It's very new/beta. If you don't ant to sign up to check it out, here's a slightly older video demo: https://youtu.be/n4vmIsw2N3k
I'd love to know what you all think and I'm happy to answer any questions.
Nice! I've seen something similar called public changelogs with https://headwayapp.co/ Take that as confirmation there is a market.
Try to avoid processing of end-user's email addresses, e.g. ask websites to send you a hash of the email address or such, or immediately hash it after receiving. With GDPR and privacy in general having a database full of email addresses is just unnecessary data collection.
Awesome, thanks for sharing and thank you for the feedback!
Whomever implements Whats New into their website/app can pass in any data they'd like as the identifier (hash, email, id, nickname, etc) as long as it's unique. Great suggestion to hash it with regards to GDPR and unnecessary data collection. I should definitely work on encouraging people to shy from using email addresses.
One of the things I like the least about all of these boxes (Apple TV, Xbox, Roku) is the need to type in a password in front of everyone in the room using a joystick or the arrows. The whole concept of a keyboard on a screen that's used by only 4 buttons reminds me of the parody onion article when they discussed removing the keyboard on the MacBook in favor of a click wheel. It doesn't make sense.
Typing “please lock my car” seems like so much more effort than tapping “lock” in the app.