From what I've heard - chatbots are bigger in China and other parts of Asia. In the US, we primarily use chat to communicate with others. In China, with apps like WeChat, you can fill out forms, send payments, etc...
Yesterday typeform announced $35 million round. Maybe there are applications for a human to chat with a survey based application. IMHO calling something a bot, is a short for "oh, I have an API which people can interact with it".
In Russia, lots of people use telegram and the bots too. I use bots to do lots of things, from ordering pizza to managing my schedule. However, these bots are usually not NLP-powered...so there's less disaster as compared to how facebook bots rely heavily on natural language input from the user
It's curious to see these occasional "cool little apps using google sheets for a datastore" when there are many "database as a service" around with free tiers, like firebase, restdb, and a whole bunch of others. Why not just use a real database instead of hacking google sheets?
FTA "Most bot tutorials are for people who can code, so if you don’t have developers or staff with extra time on their hands your custom needs may not be met."
How do we refer to the type of architecture without server-side component proper[0][1][2] though? Makes it surprisingly hard to find material and research on those topics.
Recently I was looking for one insightful talk (with a PoC) where websites run completely on users’ machines. It’s been a couple of years since I saw that talk for the first time, “cloud” was the term of choice to refer to what’s “serverless” now. I had to give up after pages upon pages of search results talking about Lambda or Azure (otherwise I’d have linked the talk here, of course).
Hi. Should be easy! I have another demo that actually send images, rich messages and other elements. However, I can't share its source code yet. Sorry!
They didn't approve my developer account, so, I have no incentive to look into this when Facebook Messenger, Telegram, and many others are widely available.
If you're interested in this approach, there's a similar spreadsheet-based pattern available for building trivia-style games for the Google Assistant platform:
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