Developer Builds AI Smart TV OS on AWS After Tackling Vega OS Compatibility Hurdles

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A developer building Vid30, a self-described AI Streaming Operating System for Smart TVs, documented the first sprint of their public build journey on DEV Community. Despite warnings that Vega OS development is designed for Linux and macOS environments, they chose to proceed using an Ubuntu EC2 instance on AWS as a remote development environment. Using Kiro as an AI-assisted IDE, they successfully forked Amazon's React Native Multi-TV starter project and learned the Vega SDK from scratch, encountering multiple issues along the way including Git, Yarn, Metro, and SDK compatibility problems. The developer resolved most obstacles but hit a final blocker in the Vega simulator workflow, publicly asking the Fire TV and Vega developer community for help. They are also seeking a physical Fire TV Stick from Amazon to test Vid30 on real hardware, framing the experience as a lesson in knowing when to pivot rather than pursuing every problem to completion.

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