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I think you've got some misunderstandings. 1) A web-service isn't "always listening". It's only invoked when called. 2) Javascript on a web page cannot read any POST data. So your skill would be restricted to giving canned responses and would be unable to react to different intents. So you couldn't do much with it. If you want to code in Javascript, I'd look into nodejs, or else just use a Lambda function. What's your end goal here?

Thank you. My main project is as follows: "Alexa, ask Denise to run ScoreKeeper" How many players? "Three" Please state first player's name.... etc.. I have a VB.NET program that I can currently use my voice to add players, add points, remove points, who is winning, end game etc...but I want it to go through Alexa since I can move Alexa into our living room or even outside for games. I have setup an HTTP/HTTPS in IIS with a self-signed certificate. Added it to my router so it can be seen outside my network. I just get lost as I try to setup a lambda proxy to my server and what I need on my server to get it to respond. I have gone through several examples of code, but still get lost. I've never created a webservice, but have written in VB and C#....I didn't mean always listening in that sense...I meant it is waiting. :-) Anything you can share as simple as possible would be great. Thank you so much again.

Well, baseline, you are going to need something that listens to a socket and responds to that. You will need to learn how to do that. Once you have that, you will need to be able to interpret what Alexa sends you, and format a response in the correct format. Since you aren't using one of their supported languages, you'll need to do that yourself. I think I've seen some posts in the forum about a .NET library for Alexa. You might want to go that route.

Got it figured out. I'm using the proxy script I saw posted here and modified it. I can now launch my application on my home computer and have the Echo have a conversation. I am going to post a very easy to follow description on here since there isn't one.