ngrok: How To Speed Up Your Chatbot Development

In this post, we’re introducing ngrok, a very useful tool that has saved us a lot of time when we were prototyping and developing chatbots. Why ngrok is so useful for chatbots To communicate with APIs like Facebook Messenger, you need to create a webhook. This webhook is triggered by an event. For example, if […]

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Chatbot Launch: Tips and Resources to Grow Users for your Bot

Discoverability is one of the main things people praise when they talk about chatbots. “The App Store is broken,” many claim, foreseeing the inbox as the new destination to discover conversational apps and bots. However, it’s not that simple. The number of bots is growing quickly, with more than 30,000 on Facebook Messenger alone since April this year. As a result, the […]

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List of Chatbot Design and Prototyping Resources

Right now, it seems like everyone keeps focusing on the development part of messaging bots. Whether it’s the large amount of bot makers popping up to help create bots, or the question if current artificial intelligence and natural language processing capabilities are enough–it’s always about the technical stuff behind bots. However, we believe the user experience […]

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