Windmill knowledge base Discord bot
AI
chatbot for documentation
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Windmill knowledge base Discord bot
Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4
windmill.dev#gpt-4 discord bot#slack bot#pgvector#workflow engine#knowledge base
How HN took it
5 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score +0.14.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 1 for, 1 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Open source and easy to follow as a tutorial
From 2 comments
Do you offer a cloud version as well? Congrats, looks like a lot of open source communities might need this!
AnhTho_FR on HNI followed this tutorial 2 weekend ago, switched out github repo with zendesk. was super helpfull to actually see how easy it was to build it. And how good the result was.
sisve on HN
Objections
Content marketing for Windmill, biased toward self-promotion
From 2 comments
Content marketing for Windmill. Just keep that motivation in mind when reading this blog post.
meghan_rain on HN“You don’t need a SaaS!” + “Using Windmill” + “Windmill Pricing:” Ok! To be fair you can self host their thing.
quickthrower2 on HN
Docs should be fixed rather than automating answers; keep human support
From 1 comment
If you are getting a lot of questions that are solved by reading the docs, you need to fix your docs. Maybe using a conversational agent is an appropriate tool for that, but…
vorpalhex on HN
Questions
Is there a cloud version?
From 1 comment
Do you offer a cloud version as well? Congrats, looks like a lot of open source communities might need this!
AnhTho_FR on HN
Alternatives named
Seeker, scriv.ai, Promptly, AwesomeQA, recurai
From 5 comments
There are a bunch I have seen, eg https://scriv.ai/
sixhobbits on HNI'm building https://seeker.so. It's mainly to index and search through your data, but you can get chatgpt to answer your question based on your data as well.
rnallandigal on HNWe are building Promptly(https://trypromptly.com), a no-code platform to build AI apps. You can build Slack/Discord bots connected to any LLM provider. You can check out the docs…
30minAdayHN on HNGood job in making it open source! We're building this as a hosted plug & play solution for Discord & Telegram integration, feel free to check it out: https://awesomeqa.xyz
korabs on HNha, Im working on something similar https://recurai.com/discord Only you can also embed the discord bot on any web app via a javascript widget.
mdev23 on HN