It's a little out of the ordinary for the content we post here, but one of the things that we at 3PO-Labs (and specifically Eric) find ourselves doing with some frequency is advocating on behalf of other developers who end up in situations they don't know how to resolve. Often this happens during the certification step, where a first rejection can seem like an insurmountable obstacle, especially for folks who are less familiar with how things work behind the scenes than we are. We recently took some time to argue on behalf of a few folks, and I wanted to share what that looks like a bit more broadly...

We wanted to take just a moment to talk about a new Alexa feature, our implementation of it in AstroBot (our space API aggregator skill), and thoughts about how to best take advantage of the new capability.