Even if true, not sure why you wrote such a snarky comment. This obviously is a side project of the author and just serves as an inspiration, it's not like he is asking money for it or anything.
They're not commenting on the quality of Jarvis (an excellent project), but on the headline. One of the key features of Echo, and one which is essential for something like this, is a good microphone. Most off the shelf ones are useless for this, and so the Echo provides fantastic value by delivering not only the voice recognition/action platform, but the hardware to make it work well.
I'd challenge someone to make a practical device that leverages Jarvis. Most microphones just aren't up to it.
I will say, I find the trend of HN posts that say "clone" of some commercial product but are missing significant features to be kind of frustrating. It tends to devalue the work that's actually involved in creating successful projects - and thus the work of software engineering.
