With more than 30 published Alexa skills in less than 12 months, Shenar has “cracked the code” for building top-earning skills and offers some pointers on how others can too.

David Markey built his first custom skill in only one day. Within a month of launching his second skill, he had earned almost $1,500 in Alexa Developer Rewards.

Oscar Merry may have studied aviation software in university, but it was building for voice that have made his career really soar. An Alexa Champion, Merry has already built a three-pronged career in voice and earned money through Alexa Developer Rewards.

As the Director of Platforms for a startup called Stop, Breathe & Think, Paul Wehner has been able to bring the power of meditation to the masses with voice and make enough money through the Alexa Developer Rewards program to scale and enhance his company’s skills.

To celebrate International Women’s Day, we’re excited to share stories from some of the inspiring women who have been pillars of innovative voice design in the developer community.

When Karen Wickert started their career as a mechanical engineer, they never imagined they’d end up building devices with cutting-edge voice technology like Alexa.

When Anna Perelman started stellé, she dreamed of bringing her sense of style and fashion to a world of otherwise dull, drab audio speakers. Today, her latest line is a unique marriage of design, sound, and the latest in voice technology.

Andrea Bianco is an Alexa Champion with a thriving smart home consulting business in southern Arizona, helping homeowners get the best experience possible from smart home devices.

When Tom Hewitson began tinkering with the Alexa Skills Kit, he never imagined his skills would make enough money for him to build a six-person studio in just six months. 

Heather Luna's strong mindset for IT and coding inspires her to innovate with technology, including Alexa. Today she is a renowned Alexa skill builder and the creator of Happy Days, a 4.2-star Alexa skill that was featured in PC Magazine and Entrepreneur.com.

With a degree in computer science and mathematics, Kesha Williams is no stranger to coding. But even after 23 years of working in IT, the software engineer discovered a new passion and one she wants to inspire other women to pursue—voice.

From the moment she discovered Alexa in her employer’s innovations lab, Jess Williams says she knew voice design would be her future.

Teen developer Austin Wilson from Rocky River, Ohio, likes to dive deep and learn how things work. While searching the web last year for information on Raspberry Pi, he was inspired to build a voice-powered car using the Alexa Skills Kit.

It took just a weekend for Jon Myers and his team to build a prototype skill using Earplay’s library of stories. Since then, the team has refined its voice user interface, turning Alexa into a truly interactive storyteller.

When Amazon added the flash briefing skill API to the Alexa Skills Kit (ASK), CNN created a flash briefing skill of its own to deliver CNN’s top new stories of the day.