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Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by vinodhdavid »

ar7hur wrote: post #16

I love this kind of service, but extensibility is probably the most important feature and unless I'm wrong, your platform is not open (yet). We developers all use different services. Hubot is extremely simple (based on regular expressions to match commands) and quite successful because it's so easy to write and use your own module [1]. Hubot being free and open source, what is your differentiation plan? I'm sure ther…

We want to run this as a service, for eg with hubot you need to add the API keys in a config file which isn't that easy unless you have a dev to write something on top of it. We are planning to make the UX really simple on provide /pulling the data from your services.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by akerl_ »

vinodhdavid wrote: post #21
ar7hur wrote: post #16

I love this kind of service, but extensibility is probably the most important feature and unless I'm wrong, your platform is not open (yet). We developers all use different services. Hubot is extremely simple (based on regular expressions to match commands) and quite successful because it's so easy to write and use your own module [1]. Hubot being free and open source, what is your differentiation plan? I'm sure ther…

We want to run this as a service, for eg with hubot you need to add the API keys in a config file which isn't that easy unless you have a dev to write something on top of it. We are planning to make the UX really simple on provide /pulling the data from your services.

Adding API keys to a config hardly requires a dev.

And giving my API keys to you is much more dangerous.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by vinodhdavid »

jalada wrote: post #17
vinodhdavid wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We don't have any plans of open sourcing it at the moment. We want it to be a service and it is free. Yup we are starting with slack and we have plans to integrate Chat apps which has the API option open :)

How about integrating with a protocol instead of adding value to someone else's product? Have we not learned our lessons from how Twitter treated developers? Enjoy getting shut off when Slack decide they don't want customers to be adding functionality without paying their per integration rate, or want to stop getting the support tickets from people using your service and confusing it with Slack itself.

Thanks for your feedback. Actually the communication market is picking up. We are not dependant on slack we are an API which can be plugged to any chat service like Hipchat kato etc.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by akerl_ »

vinodhdavid wrote: post #23
jalada wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about integrating with a protocol instead of adding value to someone else's product? Have we not learned our lessons from how Twitter treated developers? Enjoy getting shut off when Slack decide they don't want customers to be adding functionality without paying their per integration rate, or want to stop getting the support tickets from people using your service and confusing it with Slack itself.

Thanks for your feedback. Actually the communication market is picking up. We are not dependant on slack we are an API which can be plugged to any chat service like Hipchat kato etc.

Your company may not be directly dependent on Slack, but if I pay you to use your bot with my Slack system and then Slack pulls the plug, I'm dependent on Slack and your bot working together.

If Slack pulls the plug on your integration and enough of your income is from users who are integrating with Slack, your business could indeed be impacted.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by vinodhdavid »

akerl_ wrote: post #22
vinodhdavid wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We want to run this as a service, for eg with hubot you need to add the API keys in a config file which isn't that easy unless you have a dev to write something on top of it. We are planning to make the UX really simple on provide /pulling the data from your services.

Adding API keys to a config hardly requires a dev. And giving my API keys to you is much more dangerous.

We use OAuth so we don't store any API keystroke passwords. Well more than the ease we are trying to make this collaborative so you can add data to your team mate services easily.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by vinodhdavid »

vinodhdavid wrote: post #23
jalada wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about integrating with a protocol instead of adding value to someone else's product? Have we not learned our lessons from how Twitter treated developers? Enjoy getting shut off when Slack decide they don't want customers to be adding functionality without paying their per integration rate, or want to stop getting the support tickets from people using your service and confusing it with Slack itself.

Thanks for your feedback. Actually the communication market is picking up. We are not dependant on slack we are an API which can be plugged to any chat service like Hipchat kato etc.

We are working closely with Slack team to get this going. I don't foresee that happening since we promote people to get on board with slack. It's a win win. But I do get your point :) thanks for the feedback.

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by vinodhdavid »

thekylemontag wrote: post #28

Hubot as a service, but its pointed towards developers? Seems a bit odd. You should try to target services that aren’t mainly for developers instead. (ie Salesforce, Zendesk, etc)

Yeah we are getting there we started with Trello and Google calender for that exact reason :) Thanks for hte pointer!

Re: Show HN: Interbot – Get work done right from your chat app

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Post by diggan »

akerl_ wrote: post #22
vinodhdavid wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We want to run this as a service, for eg with hubot you need to add the API keys in a config file which isn't that easy unless you have a dev to write something on top of it. We are planning to make the UX really simple on provide /pulling the data from your services.

Adding API keys to a config hardly requires a dev. And giving my API keys to you is much more dangerous.

Ask a non-developer to just update the configuration file with the API keys received from whatever service and you'll get a confused look as an reply in most cases.
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