Some of the LinkedIn Responses are direct and on-point, and also hilariously/depressingly based depending on how you look at it:

EDIT: In hindsight, I think I should’ve looked into posting this in a different community… It’s closer to a silly “innovation”… soo… is this considered FUD? I also don’t support smoking or vaping, especially among kids. Original title had “privacy-violating” before the “solution”.

  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    114·
    16 days ago

    Yeah what I think is weird is that you make a bunch of assumptions about how the app is built. Experienced developers imo know that things are unexpectedly difficult all the time. Even when they are supposed to be as simple as you’re assuming here.

    • MrRedstoner@lemmy.world
      12·
      16 days ago

      Absolutely I am making a bunch of assumptions. Following the tried and true Keep It Simple Stupid approach. Because there is no indication given that any more complexity is required, and keeping complexity to a minimum is key to efficient development. If there was anything actually technically impressive (or at least technically impressive sounding) about what they did, I trust they would have mentioned it.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        28·
        16 days ago

        I’m pretty sure this guy was just a project manager or similar. So yeah I am not surprised they’re not mentioning technical hurdles.

    • SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      91·
      16 days ago

      Ok but this is very simple. Everyone can set up something like this using home assistant and a few sensors connected up to it

        • MrRedstoner@lemmy.world
          51·
          16 days ago

          set up != write software

          From the little I played with Arduino’s IoT platform, I honestly believe that if there is a compatible sensor that can detect vape smoke, almost anyone could get a simple version up and running. It was a very simple and largely automated setup if all you want is to get the sensor output to the portal and then link it to a UI element.

          Of course gluing together this software is more complex than that, but it’s no grand feat either.

          • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
            26·
            16 days ago

            No one said it was a grand feat. I said it was quite a bit more than hello world which it obviously is. Even if it’s only setup which we’ve no reason to think unless you think most people who claim to have written apps are lying