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To be honest skills have no easy monetization path if at all.

I’m not even sure skills really need to exist for anything that only uses the Alexa UI. For IOT devices it makes sense . The big issue is that you cant purchase skills and to get to using a skill is time consuming.

I made a skill called history facts and I don’t even use it. I never use skills at all.

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Most of our use of Alexa revolves around skills. But they are all around smart home products we have like Wemo, Harmony Hub, etc.

The bugbear I have (being a Canadian user) is the region lockouts. A lot of existing skills aren't ticked for English (Canada) support, so we're stuck waiting for skills to show up.

I contacted some product companies for some skills I was waiting for, and it didn't even seem like companies were notified of the region setting or the recent Canadian release.

This is a truly unbelievable oversight on Amazon's part. Bad UI is almost certainly to blame for something so silly.

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