A brief intro into...

Chat Bots

Glen Arrowsmith
Sept 2016
Brisjs.com
twitter.com/garrows

What we did at govhack.org

https://youtu.be/gQGBXKJfPcw?t=59

Websites/Webapps are hard

Mobile apps are hard

What Platforms

• Facbook Messenger
• Slack
• Telegram
• Skype
• Twitter
• Kik
• SMS
• Email
• Discord

Market Share

https://www.similarweb.com/blog/worldwide-messaging-apps

Why?

• Organize Standup
• Send news
• Organize Lunch
• Reminder Management
• Notifications
• Anything you can dream of...

How?

Usually webhooks.
Sometimes websockets.

Human -> Facebook Server -> Your server

Your server -> Facebook Server -> Human

How??

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/messenger-platform/quickstart

https://github.com/fbsamples/messenger-platform-samples​

Youtube link to the talk coming soon