Chatbots made easy
AI
chatbot builder
SHOW HN2016
How HN took it
3 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.11.
Idea: 0 for, 3 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good UI and useful demo bot
From 1 comment
The platform is only hours old in terms of public availability, but here's a pretty cool customer service demo bot that scans a knowledgebase first, but can create a helpdesk…
davidnels on HN
Accessible concept for building bots
From 1 comment
Super cool concept to make this more accessible. Has anyone deployed this platform is a customer service enviroment? And if so how'd it go?
Gustomaximus on HN
Objections
Bot platforms lack discovery, monetization and payments
From 1 comment
Bots are broken as a platform. No advertising, no payments system, developers have to pay for hosting, there's no discovery mechanism because the messengers don't have bot…
dreamdu5t on HN
Bots may be a fad or produce low-quality products
From 1 comment
This whole 'bot renaissance makes me think that somewhere 1000s of old IRC Channel admins are raising their hands in despair, and quickly shuffling through countless CD-Rs of old…
Jaruzel on HN
Unclear why a bot beats a normal website
From 2 comments
Maybe I'm missing something, but can't a normal website do all that? Or is the idea that you can feed message-only channels like email and Facebook messanger to it? But then you…
IshKebab on HNI remember the time when kids considered bots cool, and I had no idea about programming then, nor did I understand how bots were usefull.. But the problem is I dont understand…
id122015 on HN
Requests
Example bots to try before signing up
From 1 comment
Would be nice if there were a couple of example bots that you could try talking to/see some info about before creating an account.
ne0phyte on HN
XMPP sandbox server for testing bots
From 1 comment
Any thoughts on XMPP? A sandbox server that allows developers to connect through pidgin would be a great way test their bots in real-time.
dustinls on HN
Non-English language support
From 1 comment
Do the bots speak English only or can users train them easily to talk with customers in other languages?
flexie on HN
Questions
How does its NLP compare to Wit.ai and similar services
From 1 comment
From an NLP standpoint, what is the comparison between this and other NLP products? Namely WitAi, etc? I'm writing a bot framework (code, not web service), and trying to…
fizzbatter on HN
Has anyone used it in customer service
From 1 comment
Super cool concept to make this more accessible. Has anyone deployed this platform is a customer service enviroment? And if so how'd it go?
Gustomaximus on HN
Alternatives named
Wit.ai
From 1 comment
From an NLP standpoint, what is the comparison between this and other NLP products? Namely WitAi, etc? I'm writing a bot framework (code, not web service), and trying to…
fizzbatter on HN
api.ai
From 1 comment
Our value-add here would be providing the pipelines for one-click deployment (SMS, Facebook, Slack etc) and structuring of conversation flow, in addition to things like…
davidnels on HN
Cyrano translation API
From 1 comment
Most of what I've seen is in English but there are some second-level services popping up that promise an API for chatbot translation, e.g. Cyrano (http://cyrano.unbabel.com/).
rmelly on HN