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Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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Re: Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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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.

David from Motion AI here. Definitely agree! We are building out our Bot Store which will be a great way to sample a wide range of bots.

Re: Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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post #2

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.

David from Motion AI here. Definitely agree! We are building out our Bot Store which will be a great way to sample a wide range of bots.

Should be on the home page, perhaps even above the fold already asking you a question with a side-by-side of the flowchart components being activated/highlighted.

Re: Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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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?

Replace "bots" with "internet" and this could have been a quote lifted from a circa-1995 Microsoft strategy meeting

Re: Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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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?

Replace "bots" with "internet" and this could have been a quote lifted from a circa-1995 Microsoft strategy meeting

Bots are closer to a CLI than a GUI, that is the core issue with discovery.

Re: Show HN: Chatbots made easy – Build, train, and deploy bots

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

David from Motion AI here. Definitely agree! We are building out our Bot Store which will be a great way to sample a wide range of bots.

Should be on the home page, perhaps even above the fold already asking you a question with a side-by-side of the flowchart components being activated/highlighted.

That's a super good UI suggestion, thanks. We just launched our public beta about 6 hours ago and have been thrilled with the response and very unique bots being created (particularly when people leverage IFTTT and Zapier too) ... we'll definitely be surfacing as many cool uses as possible ASAP :)
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