The major part of the skill is the blue Audio Player block, which streams the audio file with the sound on Alexa. It also has a Stop Block, which activates when the user says stop, and a Help Block, which triggers if the user says help.

You can see for yourself how it looks in Storyline here:

Healthy Habits, by Digital Pratik

Healthy Habits Alexa Skill built on Storyline.

Healthy Habits Alexa Skill gives you one good healthy habit a day. Lightweight by design, it has such a unique and well-chosen use case for Alexa that it was able to reach 3,492 users as of today.

It also uses a trick I described in this blog post to attract more 5-star reviews from its users. In short, the trick is very simple:

For every five 5-star reviews the creator of the skills adds some new content.

This motivates both the users of the skill to leave high-quality ratings and the creator to add more content once they hit another milestone. Basically, user feedback = more content in the skill. It works so well that the skill was able to reach thirty one 5-star reviews in the Alexa Skills Store.

More than that, once Pratik saw the success of the skill, he released four similar Alexa skills with just another type of content:

As a result, Alexa skills built by Digital Pratik now reach more than 20,000 users and have over 100 reviews total.

As you can see from this example, it’s not about putting all your efforts to launch one Alexa Skill. It’s about trial and error, and also an ability to learn from your mistakes and successes.

Healthy Habits Alexa Skill is also very simple by design. Here’s an example of how a skill similar to this one, Daily Life Hack, looks like in Storyline: