It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The obvious solution: a video doorbell! I looked around and ended up buying a cheap Blink doorbell. It worked: we got video clips and everything! However, there was an annoying regression to our front door experience . Before we had the doorbell, people just knocked on the front door. But now, people would notice the doorbell and ring it instead. This would send a notification to our phones, and then it would also helpfully play a sound on the doorbell itself… outside the door… which we could not hear. 😬 My wife does not keep her phone on her at all times because she isn’t chronically attached to technology like I am. This also meant that the doorbell didn’t really work for her and she didn’t realize when people were waiting at the door after ringing the doorbell. I remember her telling me: “This is really stupid, Vivek.…