Keeping abandoned watches ticking!
summary
Community reverse engineers Pebble apps, mirrors sites, and reimplements APIs so watches keep booting after Fitbit shuts the original services. CloudPebble code and the apps’ custom URL scheme let a replacement boot server redirect devices. Infrastructure runs on AWS Lambda and S3, and automatic scaling absorbs a sudden surge to 100,000 users. Major recurring costs—$220,000 Google dictation $500,000 IBM weather—lead to a $3/month subscription and a magic‑link boot URL hack that actually works.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 0:31What is Pebble?
- 0:53What happened?
- 2:30Web Services
- 5:26How do we run it?
- 7:31Make a budget
- 8:46Subscription enforcement
- 9:15Crazy Hack Time
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