[Alexa Skill] Building an Amazon Alexa Skill rating system, part 1

We're exploring how ratings and reviews work in the Alexa Skill land. It's been over three years since I developed BMW's Alexa Skill. Things are different, new, and exciting!

We're going to do everything live: thinking about the features, creating our first skill, coding it up, and testing it!

I'm impressed with the new Alexa IDE. I chose the Node.js Lambda route.

Finding the CloudWatch console was a bit confusing, but thankfully we found it.

We ended up creating a basic skill in this stream that can handle two intents.

For the next stream, we will explore ratings and reviews functionality of the Alexa store. We will also see if we can log user feedback to a basic spreadsheet.

Until next time!