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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?
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 stores... Why would developers be interested?
Also bot functions can be federated and forwarded quite easily.
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 stores... Why would developers be interested?
What stops you from building a bot that supports advertising, payments system, "server-less" mode? Also bot functions can be federated and forwarded quite easily.
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 stores... Why would developers be interested?
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 stores... Why would developers be interested?
Granted, the natural language stuff is way better than it was, but the current bot platforms that are springing up everywhere are nothing more than a language parser and an empty ruleset DB that you as the customer have to spend endless hours populating.
It seems a very unfinished solution right now; We're going to see a flood of sub-par bots* on the market that are going to cause the end users to disengage within months.
(*I'm sure motion.ai's bots are very good, and I am not singling them out here, just commenting on the whole bot thing in general)
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 stores... Why would developers be interested?
There also are bot stores on some messaging apps. I know Skype just added one. And facebook and telegram were giving out grants for users to develop interesting bots on their platforms.
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 TCL and Perl code to see if they have something worth re-releasing. Granted, the natural language stuff is way better than it was, but the current bot platforms that are springing up everywhere are nothing more than a language parser and an…