First Gladys release

One year after creating my blog, I finally released a first version of Gladys: a smart home assistant built on top of a Raspberry Pi.

This was my first experience with launching a product on the internet.

So I wrote a press release, and sent it to 10 french website, and waited.

I was surprise to see that almost half of them published the press release on their website without even touching the content of my press release. There was even a link to my website on their article: Crazy!

In a couple of hours, my project was getting famous in the french home automation ecosystem, and I was getting visitors, downloads, it was crazy!

Several days after releasing this, Gladys was download more than 1 000 times. Not bad a first launch :)