Amazon is trying to sell to the "I can't afford furniture but I can afford an automatic lock system and house cleaners" demographic.

Brilliant (and obvious move) by Amazon. This furthers their integration into the home, enabling them to become the connector (and provider) for a variety of services beyond package delivery such as in-home cleaning, dog walking, etc.

Just a thought... What about the scenario when owners have a dog? 🐶

The industrial design on this feels incongruent with the Echo line. Different departments?

I knew this day would come. This looks like the lock you find on a public restroom. Now that Amazon is starting their own fleet of delivery drivers, they’re going to have to have access to restrooms somewhere, so why not yours when you’re not home? Why not anyone? That’s it! This is my @ProductHunt hackathon idea: Airpoonpee—💩 anywhere with Amazon Key.

This is so crazy, and yet so genius, that it will eventually work. Basically, gimme a key to your home, I will buy your groceries, walk your dog, put your new books into the shelves and clean your house. AND YOU WILL PAY FOR EVERY SINGLE THING. Even for giving me a key. I just wish Amazon decides to leave us something to work on.

"Nah...I’m good." – Philip DeFranco‏

I think it's a good idea and if an Amazon employee were to steal it would be on video anyways.

Pros:

You can watch everything from your phone and allow people to unlock your door.

Cons:

Amazon has access to open your door and if someone were to hack the system it would open a lot of doors and someone could steal from you.

Really interesting move by Amazon. I think the teaser video did a great job of showcasing a scenario of how this can be beneficial in numerous situations. What I am curious about is if there will ever be a solution for people who rent homes/apartments that aren't allowed to change their door locks.

I don't trust delivery drivers to put my delivery outside my home (a Yodel driver left a package in a recycling bin that was being emptied a few hours later) let alone open the front door and inside my home

All I can think of right now is RIP Nest Cam. If AmazonKey has 24hr recording in the cloud included with Prime and a lower price point that is. Especially now that that ~$25 camera came out (on PH yesterday?).

Facebook and Google will have your data stored online. Amazon be like Hold my beer. We'll have your offline data.

Amazon is a good company and even with cool features of amzon services, there is no way to allow strangers entering your own house

Even with trustful partners and employees, if anyone has access to databases, bad ppl can get access to your house....

Pros:

Nonsense

Cons:

There is no security at all

I would not trust Amazon product

Yeah... Amazon is getting crazy. They are going to earn money for everything. That's cool. Nothing you can say about that. Cool, very cool. They got a huge audience and huge opportunities to sell anything to that audience, That's what they are doing and it's something right to do.

Not available in 🇨🇦. 😑

This is both really cool technology and terrifyingly dystopian.

It’s a great idea but it’s a minimum $350 package– I wish they would have leveraged their buying power to create a $100 solution. People willing to spend this much are probably people that already have smart locks andcameras installed in their home.

Is this going to have ADT/Simplisafe type of integrations to temporarily disable the alarm? Because otherwise it won't work with any single-family home with an alarm system (which is most of them).

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