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The television as the care surface for the person being cared for.
Products for ageing at home are built for the caregiver: a phone app full of alerts, checked by a daughter three hundred miles away. Wick turns that around. It lives on the screen an older person already watches, asks her to install nothing, learn nothing and wear nothing, and keeps her in charge. The family sees only what she has agreed to share, and everything is answered with one button on the remote she already holds.
Submitted to Build, Ship, Shape: Amazon Developer Hackathon. Track: Fire TV. Mini challenges: AWS Builder and Open Source.
- Margaret lives alone. She is the user. She has never installed an app.
- Sarah, her daughter, lives far away. She is the buyer, and she wants less worry, not more data.
- Maria is Margaret's carer.
Try the demo makes you Sarah.
| The door | A ring puts a card on her television in about two seconds, then the doorbell's picture and one plain sentence about who is there. Only the door may interrupt. |
| The family | Sarah asks Alexa+ "How's Mum been this week?" and gets a short, honest answer. Her notes wait for a natural break in Margaret's programme. |
| The rhythm | Wick learns what a normal week looks like in this house, so it stays quiet when nothing is wrong. |
| Her control | Margaret sees everything the family sees. Anything unusual is shown to her first, as the exact sentence, and only her press on Tell lets it leave the house. |
More on every feature is on the Features page.
| If you are... | Start here |
|---|---|
| A judge or a first-time visitor | Try It, then Features |
| Curious about the idea | The Idea, then Privacy and Trust |
| An engineer | Architecture, then Developer Guide |
| Building on the Alexa+ side | Alexa+ MCP Tools |
| Looking at how Amazon's platforms behaved | Friction Log |
| Wondering what is real and what is simulated | Status and Honesty |
| Televisions | Vega OS app, the same app on Fire OS, and a browser television |
| Family surface | Alexa+ add-on (simulated, as the rules allow), a family app, and the family's own Fire TV |
| Server | One MCP server (spec 2025-11-25, OAuth 2.1) with 25 tools |
| Agents | Three on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, built with Strands |
| AWS | 26 Lambda functions, IoT Core, Step Functions, SQS, App Runner, DynamoDB, S3, CloudFront, Cognito and more, all in Terraform |
| Tests | More than 6,700, plus property tests on the two rules that matter most |
| Licence | MIT |
Source: github.com/rogerjeasy/wick