How Kik Predicted the Rise of Chat Bots

Post by linkregister » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 12:32 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #15

giancarlostoro wrote: post #10

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The thing is, the Mobile Internet is rising, most people have phones, and old trends and concepts that are old to the Internet seem new and significant to the mobile platform. For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. Edit: Also consider how much information is on your phone, and how easy it is to access it than with a browser on your lapt…

>For example Flappy Bird was an ancient game on the web that existed and then it blew up, now you have many, many clones. I'll give you a better example than that in Angry Birds. Crush the Castle was a staple of mine for at least a year or two LOOONG before Angry Birds showed up; ultimately the exact same format of a game except your projectile was a trebuchet and not a slingshot. Angry Birds showed up on the smartph…

Post by dcwca » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 1:20 AM UTC

j45 wrote: post #16

palakchokshi wrote: post #3

I'm sorry but Kik didn't predict the Rise of Chat Bots. Kik basically looked at WeChat and said we should do that. Same as Facebook and the others. WeChat showed that micro-apps inside a chat interface worked for their target market. The key is to understand the needs of WeChat's target market and figure out the overlap with the US market then figure out the unique needs of the US market.

All of them probably looked at IRC bots.

Post by j45 » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 3:52 AM UTC

dcwca wrote: post #33

j45 wrote: post #16

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All of them probably looked at IRC bots.

As a lesson in how not to do it.

Post by drinchev » Tue, Jun 21, 2016, 7:35 AM UTC

dkn wrote: post #7

Same Kik here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11340510