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Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

machbio wrote: post #21

I think the problem with text based apps are that they cannot access our location constantly and I as a user has to take an extra step to inform the AI about my location every-time I need something.. As Myra is only limited to San Francisco, it is suggesting only places in that city.. I do not whether its possible for the message recipient to access our location on facebook..To the Myra Developers, But there is a sha…

Incidentally, after checking it out - the product you have linked to is an SMS gateway.

Myra is able to understand intent via natural language processing. This is independent of the medium you interact with it from - for instance, it could use Slack, Telegram, Gtalk or even email and voice.

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

philipjoubert wrote: post #30
viksit wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To clarify - the system is in fact natively integrated across the SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger protocols. :) It's not using SMS as a way to talk to them. If you use those, you'll see that the responses are almost instantaneous, compared to the lag which SMS inherently has. There is a general purpose API that can be used via any platform - Slack, Telegram, Gtalk, or email. Anything that supports text.

Thanks for clarification. I have used Whatsapp and it worked great until 08:30 PT when it suddenly stopped working. When you say "natively integrated" what do you mean? As far as I can tell there are no APIs for either Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.

Ah, it's possible that there's some issue with the WA integration. I'll check. In the mean time, SMS and FB Messenger should be active for sure!

I'm using thirdparty open source libraries to integrate FB and Whatsapp into this.

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

Qwl wrote: post #33

viksit, at sameroom.io we are building real-time messaging gateway system (currently adding FB, Telegram and Whatsapp). Would you be interested in us opening a generic API to apps like yours so we handle all protocol differences?

That would be very interesting! Ping me offline? (username at gmail)

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

philipjoubert wrote: post #30
viksit wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To clarify - the system is in fact natively integrated across the SMS, Whatsapp and Facebook Messenger protocols. :) It's not using SMS as a way to talk to them. If you use those, you'll see that the responses are almost instantaneous, compared to the lag which SMS inherently has. There is a general purpose API that can be used via any platform - Slack, Telegram, Gtalk, or email. Anything that supports text.

Thanks for clarification. I have used Whatsapp and it worked great until 08:30 PT when it suddenly stopped working. When you say "natively integrated" what do you mean? As far as I can tell there are no APIs for either Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger.

It appears that Whatsapp may have (temporarily?) blocked access to their service.

User interactions have really spiked as we speak. Try shifting to FB Messenger (if abroad or not wanting to use SMS) or SMS in the meanwhile!

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by donall »

viksit wrote: post #13
donall wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, you can use Factual.com to get location data for all kinds of businesses. You'll still need to source reviews from somewhere else, but this might be a useful way of ensuring you have good coverage. (disclaimer: I work at Factual, but a) I'm commenting as an individual, not representing the company; b) I genuinely think this is a good choice for you; c) for a small app like this, the data will likely be free, so…

That's a great suggestion @donall. I'm already crawling the web for information and not just reviews, but the location database would be awesome. Is there a specific class of program you guys have for free data?

You can get free access to the API, capped at 10K requests per day. Hopefully that is enough to be useful at this initial stage!

After that, I think pricing depends on your app. I think it is extremely favourable to small/new startups, but I am am engineer and not a sales guy, so I don't want to say anything that might be both specific and wrong... (I hope this isn't starting to sound like a bait and switch sales pitch; if you want to talk offline my gmail is donallmc).

[Edited to update email]

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by comrade1 »

The FCC has been cracking down on companies using long codes for SMS services because those long codes aren't required to follow the normal SMS rules concerning opting in, opting out, opt less keywords (help messages). For short codes the phone companies each test the short code to confirm it's following the rules.

Further, these long codes switch companies frequently as they get reused when they're no longer in use, and SMS user numbers have been spammed with sms messages as a result.

Re: Show HN: Myra – AI based personal assistant you can text

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Post by viksit »

comrade1 wrote: post #38

The FCC has been cracking down on companies using long codes for SMS services because those long codes aren't required to follow the normal SMS rules concerning opting in, opting out, opt less keywords (help messages). For short codes the phone companies each test the short code to confirm it's following the rules. Further, these long codes switch companies frequently as they get reused when they're no longer in use,…

Makes sense. Notably, however, this is an alpha product, very much a way to see user engagement and figure out what works and what doesn't, and what people want it to do. Once those questions are clarified, all the rest of the infrastructure will definitely be built up adhering to established standards.

In that respect, it absolutely makes sense to use a shortcode where you can conform to regulations.

It's important to note though that Myra only responds when asked for information, and never without. So, it makes sure not to spam at all.

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