Thomas Groutars

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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Thomas Groutars
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!
Ahmed Men
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!
Hunter Carter
@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!
Ahmed Men
@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 :)
Ahmed Men
@thomgroutars @ahmedmen @school_4_ants James, thank you very much for your lovely comment, it means a lot to me!
Pierrick
How is this different than something like Zapier for Alfred? https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Ahmed Men
@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!
Chris Messina
Top Hunter
@pierrickgt I kind of wish this were just a really polished Alfred extension.
Ahmed Men
@pierrickgt @chrismessina stay tuned, some cool stuff coming soon : )
Mehdi Boudoukhane
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! ☺️
Ahmed Men
@mehdi_b Mehdi! A lovely comment to read bro. Thank you for your continued support 🤗 Can’t wait to manage Lazy through Cycle app!!
Akshay Kadam(A2K)
Amazing way to automate stuff around u. Be Lazy 😉
Ahmed Men
@deadcoder0904 You said it! As this good old Bill Gates says : "I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it." 🤓
Killian Talin
Love it ! Congrats for the launch, it's very useful
Ahmed Men
@rastakik_ Thank you so much Killian :) Glad you like it!
Ghost Kitty
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Ahmed Men
@aaron_kazah Thanks a lot Aaron! How things are going with Collapsed 2.0? I wanna learn from failed startups :)
Ghost Kitty
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Ahmed Men
@aaron_kazah Good luck with Waitlyst Aaron. It looks like an amazing project 👌
Nicolas Schweitzer
Pretty awesome, just had a quick try and it works great. Thanks!
Ahmed Men
@nicolas_schweitzer Thank you my man! 🤗Gives me good inspiration to keep the quality up! Cheers!
Thomas Pouillevet
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
Ahmed Men
@thomas_pouillevet Many thanks Thomas, really appreciated mate👌Inspiring me to keep the value high :)
anas ameziane
Geat job @demtzu 👏, I hope you will make a linux version 🙏
Ahmed Men
@anas_ameziane Thank you so much Anas! A linux version is not on the roadmap yet but I want to see what’s going on with the launch :) I already feel that a lot of people interested in IoT are not on the apple ecosystem!
Luca
I discovered it on Indiehackers a few weeks ago and I have been using it since. Great product and amazing landing page.
Ahmed Men
@luqa Awesome Feedback Luca. Thank you!
Orhan Yesilöz
Congrats on the launch @demtzu ! Looks awesome. Also, I love the video - could you share how you created it?
Ahmed Men
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!
Ahmed Men
@mikedane7 Thanks Mike. Really appreciated man
Jonathan Parisot
This looks sleek, congrats on the launch!
Ahmed Men
@joparisot Thank you for the lovely comment Jonathan! Very nice of you :)
Janis Rozenfelds
Super, very happy to support this project. Awesome job!
Ahmed Men
@janisrozenfelds Such a lovely comment Janis. Thank you so much for your support. Really appreciated mate!
Jim Raptis
Super handy app! It can really boost productivity and leave you focus on your tasks! Keep up the awesome job man 🙌
Ahmed Men
@draptis Dimitris, seriously lovely comment. Thank you very much!!
Jonatan Castro
Super interesting! Would be amazing to get support for https://www.home-assistant.io
Ahmed Men
@jonatan Thanks for checking out Jonathan. I'll check home-assistant, very nice of you to share this idea.
Cécile Dezy
Congrats for the launch @demtzu ! Can't wait to try it !🙌
Ahmed Men
Love it. Thank you Cécile 🤗
Yassine Belkaid
Amazing @demtzu, pretty cool app actually, all the best ;)
Ahmed Men
@yassine_belkaid Thanks Yassine. Greatly appreciated mate 🙏
Tewfik
Hey Congratz ! Hâte d'essayer ton soft !!
Ahmed Men
@tewfik Merci pour ton temps Tewfik ! Content que ça te plaise a priori : )) Quand tu veux pour une demo, je reviens vers toi.
Tewfik
@demtzu Avec plaisir ! Hâte de voir comment tu peux faire de moi une lazy person !! ta vidéo est trés intérrésante ! On en reparle bientôt !
Juan Sarmiento
Hey @demtzu great launch mate! Love the way you introduce the product to your users on the site. Everything's is informative and to-the-point and definitely loved the video (what did you use to make it?). I'll give it a try on my home and let you know :)
Ahmed Men
@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 :)