Gladys is an open-source program which runs on your Raspberry Pi. She integrates into your life, seamlessly communicating across your entire home network and your devices while checking you calendar.
This is beautiful, Pierre! I have been looking for a system just like Gladys recently, so thanks for making it!
Do you have a plan to monetize in the near future?
@joey_tawadrous Hey! Thanks for your message :)
It's already monetized since 1.5 years! On the past year, I did 20k$ in revenue on the project by selling an ebook + video pack about Gladys (only in french, that's why you don't see it on the website). All the revenue is public here => https://gladysproject.com/open
But I'm now launching an international product, the Gladys Gateway, which will be available for 9.99€/month in the coming weeks.
If you want to see what's the Gladys Gateway, have a look at this Tweet Thread => https://twitter.com/pierregilles...
Hey everyone!
5 years ago, as I was still a student, I built Gladys: A Jarvis-like home automation software that allowed me to control my house and automate many things in my life, just thanks to a Raspberry Pi. From my lights, music, coffee machine: anything could be automated and integrated into a nice scenario.
I released the software for completely free and open-source, and quickly I saw lots of interests in the project. Years after years, I improved the software with the help of my awesome community, to bring it where we are now.
Today, we now have more than 35k downloads of Gladys and more than 3 000 people in the online community.
Since last year I started monetizing the project so that I can work full time on it. I did 20k$ in revenue the first year, and it's still growing.
I have a new product linked to Gladys that's going to be live soon for 9.99€/month, and I can't wait to release it online!
Don't hesitate to reach me if you have any question :)
@poehah it really depends what kind of hardware you have, or plan to have. Are you more a DIY guy and want to build it with an arduino and some hand soldered sensors, or do you prefer a consumer ready solution (often more expensive) ?
@pierregillesl If I can choose, I'd prefer a consumer-ready device. I can probably whip something up on an Arduino though. I though it didn't need soldering, just pluging pins? 😄
@poehah It's up to you! A great and cheap consumer ready solution is Xiaomi Home devices, it's like 7$ per sensor ( Example: https://www.gearbest.com/xiaomi-... )
Gladys connects well with Xiaomi devices, and it's really plug and play!
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