I posted this question to Twitter as well, but all these builders need to consider how to handle the ongoing management of bot content. i.e.: I built the bot with Chatfuel easy enough, but I am not the primary marketing person that will be updating the Q&A nature and links within the bot itself. Need a way to share a dashboard for the content management.
Just finished creating my first bot - now in test phase and hopefully will set it live sometime in the upcoming weeks. Did this for a music discovery platform where often bands submit music by sending us messages on Facebook.
Will definitely help things out! So far - the experience has been rather smooth.
Hey everybody -
Dmitrii from Chatfuel here – thanks for your great feedback and upvotes!
We very much believe in the bot future (just like probably many of you). Started on Telegram about a year ago and now have more than 150K chatbots created, today rolling out to the Messenger. We want to enable anyone with no programming skills or servers to build bots, that's why we strive to make it very simple, intuitive and visual.
Lots of cool features are available right now: customizable AI (just like TechCrunch bot m.me/techcrunch), integrations (Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, etc), content collections, broadcasting and many more. We host your bots and the service is free.
We are working hard on rolling out more features and would love to hear your feedback on what's missing.
I’m personally very excited to interact with all of you and hear what use-cases you have in mind and answer any questions you may have! Feel free to reach out to me personally at d@chatfuel.com or m.me/dumik
P.S. Check out the video on how to create your bot in less then 10 minutes:
Dmitrii
@ddumik@chatfuel Very cool! But how have you survived this long with no monetization? Do the custom bots for the big brand publishers provide enough to keep the lights on? I'm always afraid of building on a platform that is free with no paid plans.
Great product. I have started to play with it yesterday and i was managed to complete 65% of my bot in few hours - really intuitive and easy to learn. I really loved the option to broadcast a message to the users (though scheduling one didn't work). Chatfuel also helped me register my bot (saving my hours). this the second bot developing platform that i have used so i have something to compere. keep the hard work!
@bentossell Same here.. Is there anyone who can help us started quickly? May be @ddumik can help.
There are few issues with Facebook integration ( submission to be precise )
@ivan_zamesin Thanks @ivan_zamesin !! Successfully created a chat-bot.. Loving it so far. Have to create a screencast of sample chat convo for FB app submission. Will keep you posted with the progress.
I've been testing this bot builder during the last week and it's really simple and intuitive and the support is great. Their bot builder for Telegram is really good too.