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Lazy IoT — Control your environment with one easy keyboard shortcut
💻Keyboard-driven commands to manage your surroundings directly from your mac.
Meet the Lazy Command line by hitting ⌥ + ⌘ + K and find all your IoT devices and services in one place.
One shortcut to rule them all.
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@juanpablosarmi So glad you like it Juan! Thank you for the lovely comment 😍 Regarding the video I partly used Screenspace studio from dfanton - great tool!
Ok feel free to ping me if I can assist you when you're home :)
I discovered Lazy this Summer in my cowork. @demtzu showed up and he had a pretty nifty way to turn on his fan. This caught my attention and I asked him to show me how he did it, using just his keyboard. He could control all kinds of stuff: vacuum, curtains, coffee machine, lights… I was amazed by what he could do with keyboard shortcuts to save time at home and at the office. I thought it could be very useful for people here, not necessarily for IoT geeks but also devs or just productive hackers. For instance, Lazy allows me to deploy a side project I have through Netlify with one easy shortcut. I think you will find that Lazy adapts very nicely to some of your workflows. Curious to see what others uses people come up with!
Thanks so much @thomgroutars for hunting Lazy! 🙏
Hello World. I am excited to be here and strangely a bit anxious as well!
I built Lazy to let anyone control their IoT devices and services from one place, thanks to one easy shortcut.
I can literally spend hours on creating an automation that will save me a fraction of a second a day.
I concede, it is not the most efficient use of my time but anyone who’s obsessed with productivity tools like me will understand. It’s not so much about saving time that it is about the gratifying pleasure of knowing that everything works as you set out to do.
This time I felt that using my smartphone to trigger my devices would often end up with me losing my precious flow... I started thinking that it would be more efficient to use my keyboard. So I solved the problem with the Lazy command line.
Of course, It's not complicated on smartphones, for example on iPhone the Shortcut app is perfect to put your webhooks and use your smartphone as a remote control.
But when you are coding, writing an email or working on an important topic on your laptop you do not want to go and take your smartphone to turn on the lights for instance. Also, I do not know about you but when I am deep in work, I do not want my smartphone to be close to me because it can easily distract me with useless notifications. I needed a way to activate my connected objects without breaking my flow.
If you are interested by the behind scene of Lazy : I tell the full story in this post :https://medium.com/@ahmedmen/wha....
You will find the hacks I learned along the way, and how I automated domestic chores.
I hope it will give you some inspiration on how to use Lazy and how to be more productive at home. Here is also a few examples on how Lazy people use it : https://www.lazy-app.com/usecase...
I would love to hear your quick (or extensive) feedback =) Please have a play around with it!
@thomgroutars @ahmedmen @demtzu This app and your story speaks to me. Didn't realize I wanted something like this until I read this post. Thank you for making this and you keep doing you!
@jijosunny Thanks Jijo, but It's me who congrats you! I'll be in SF soon, would be a pleasure to have a coffee with THE coffee guy :)
@thomgroutars @ahmedmen @school_4_ants James, thank you very much for your lovely comment, it means a lot to me!
How is this different than something like Zapier for Alfred?
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@pierrickgt I love the comparison Pierrick, thanks for asking! I am a big fan of Alfred, and huge user of Zapier. For now I just focus to create an experience where users can control their home straight from their keyboard without stopping what they're doing. You could do a workflow with Alfred but with more setup time; also your devices will be mixed with files, bookmarks and apps, etc. which can be confusing. The idea of the V2 is to integrate IFTTT and Zapier inside Lazy to avoid creating webhooks. I wanted to have the users’ feedback before building that V2, and do something that matters for them!
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@pierrickgt I kind of wish this were just a really polished Alfred extension.
Super handy app! It can really boost productivity and leave you focus on your tasks! Keep up the awesome job man 🙌
@demtzu love everything about this, from execution to branding and landing page. Much love went into this.
Switching lights on and off has never been so fun! It's only one example but Lazy really allows you to control your whole life with a single keyboard shortcut. It's well thought out and easy to install. I strongly recommend you to give it a try! ☺️
Is this only for mac? Cause if so.. i mean racist is clearly not the right word but...... no Android, or windows?! thats racist!.
Extend Spotlight and you’ll have a winner (so I can control it with Siri from my iMac, MacBook Pro, IPhone and iPad Pro).
I already know more keyboard shortcuts and interfaces than I care... It’s not about to learn alfred, yours or anyone’s else’s short cut interface.
Congrats on the launch @demtzu ! Looks awesome. Also, I love the video - could you share how you created it?
Such a lovely comment Orhan. Thank you. Regarding the video you give me a great opportunity to recommend ScreenSpace Studio from @dfanton I highly recommend that tool, very easy to manage if you have no video editing skills!
looks incredibly useful! having full control of my environment from a single place sounds seriously underrated.
I've been looking for similar app but I haven't find. Integration with IFTTT is amazing and open various possibilities. Great app!
Anyone else having issues getting this program to run? I've tried uninstalling it and reinstalling, and still can't get it to respond.
@austinlmullins1 Hey Austin, sorry for the trouble! May I ask you what is your mac version? macOS 10.3+ is recommended. Please feel free to ping me by email if you need any assistance.
I hate everything Mac. If there is a god, Steve Jobs is burning in the lake of fire, if nothing else for making his entire fortune off the one thing god told us not to eat. Anywhoo, my hatred for Apple seems to be less than my love for lazyness. Sold!
Very neat product ! So good to be able to control all your devices from a single interface! A real time saver! I can't wait to try it on new IoT devices
@thomas_pouillevet Many thanks Thomas, really appreciated mate👌Inspiring me to keep the value high :)
Amazing concept. Wish it had Alfred integration, or maybe it does but I just don't know how to set it up to.. Also don't like that you have to give an email to download the link.. kinda skeptical of that kind of thing.
Really like the concept/function; However when installed by trackpad now randomly disconnects several times a day. Started happening right after installing Lazy. Had to do a macOS reinstall, trackpad worked fine, then a few days later installed Lazy again and the Magic Trackpad went back to randomly disconnecting through out the day again.
Wish his wasn't the case, as pretty much everything in my house is a IoT device (lights, door lock, sensors, thermostat, etc) and it gets annoying have to shout at Alexa all the time, or searching for my phone to turn on/off the garage light the was left on.
This would be good if it didn't depend on IFTT for everything. Especially now that IFTTT has gone to a pay service.
Need alternative option, like transmitting to a MQTT Broker
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