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Table of Contents

Platform Documentation

• IBM Bot Asset Exchange
• Facebook messenger
• Slack
• Discord
• Telegram
• Kik
• Zulip
• HipChat
• Skype
• Cisco Spark
• Microsoft Bot Framework
• WeChat
• VKontakte
• Hangouts Chat

Tools For Building Bots

• wit.ai - Easily create text or voice based bots that humans can chat with.
• Botkit - Botkit eases the process of designing and running bots that live inside Slack.
• Dialogflow - Build natural and rich conversational experiences.
• Text It - Visually build SMS and voice apps to engage your customers.
• Chatfuel - The intuitive bot builder with AI navigation. No coding required.
• Watson - Bring the power of cognitive computing to your apps.
• Beep Boop - Beep Boop is a simple hosting platform for your Slack and Messenger bots.
• Dexter - Get a Slack bot that responds with answers from your own Google Sheet.
• Converse AI - Respond to customer questions instantly with intelligent chatbot technology.
• Gupshup - Easiest & fastest way to build & deploy your bots on any channel.
• Haven OnDemand - They are similar APIs as that of watson, but far well documented and have a freemium version.
• Recast.AI - Collaborative Bot Platform for developers: build conversational bots easily.
• ChatterBot - Machine-learning based conversational dialog engine build in Python
• Google Cloud Platform - Use sentiment analysis on a block of text to add decision tree logic for a conversation bot.
• Messenger Demo Viewer - Demo FB Messenger bots without showing personal chats
• BotStar - Powerful platform for designing & developing chatbots visually with smart training.

Tools For Bot Analytics

• ChatMetrics - Engagement platform for bots. ChatMetrics allows to reactivate inactive users and improve retention by sending "smart" notifications to users.
• Dialog - Chatbot analytics platform for marketers to drive user engagement, retention, conversion and understand behavior.
• Dashbot - Actionable Bot Analytics: Increase user engagement, acquisition, and monetization.
• Botmetrics - Grow and retain your chatbot customers. Enterprise grade opensource conversational analytics, marketing automation, and CRM rolled into a single snippet of code.

Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups

• Bot Society - Bot conversation Mockups for presentation and demo.
• Bot Sketch - Sketch Chatbot UI (Mac Only)
• Botframe - a playground to design bots (conversation mockups).
• Botmock - Create conversation flows and interactive prototypes from a simple drag and drop editor, then share or test those prototypes and get feedback in one centralized location.
• BotStar - A fullfledged chatbot platform but the visual editor can be used as a mockup tool as well.

Libraries

General

• Qtypes - Rule based Answer Type classification system in Node.js.
• BotKit - Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications.
• Claudia Bot Builder - Create chat bots for FB, Slack, Skype and Telegram and deploy to AWS Lambda in minutes.
• Universal Bot Framework - Create crossplatform chat bots for FB Messenger, Kik, Telegram and Skype with just one logic.
• Pandorabots - web service for building and deploying chatbots.
• Microsoft Bot Framework - Node.js/.NET library for building, connecting, testing, and deploying powerful and intelligent bots.
• Bottender - Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly.
• BotMan - PHP Bot Framework supporting over a dozen platforms (FB, Instagram, MS Bot Framework, etc)

Facebook Messenger

• Node.js
• Go

Slack

• Node.js (Official)
• Node.js
• Python (Official)
• Relax (scalable RTM library to scale to 1000's of teams)

Telegram

• Node.js
• Node.js
• Node.js
• PHP
• PHP
• Python
• C#
• Go
• Java

Discord

Node.js

• Eris
• Discord.js
• Discordie
• Discord.io

C

• Concord

C

• Discord.Net
• DSharpPlus

Python

• discord.py

Java

• JDA

Rust

• Serenity

Lua

• Discordia

Go

• Discordgo

Kik

• Python
• Node.JS

Bot Stores

• There is a bot for that - Search engine for bots
• ChatBottle - Chatbots search engine
• BotList - An App Store For Bots.
• Slack Store - The official Slack bot store.
• Telegram Store - The unofficial Telegram bot store.
• Product Hunt - Product Hunt bot list.
• Dashbot - Dashbot bot directory.
• Skype Bot Directory - The official list of skype bots by Microsoft Bot Framework
• Teamchat - Bot store by teamchat.
• Discord Bots - An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Discord Bot List - An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Telegram Botlist - A bot list for Telegram.
• Mayo Bot List - An unofficial list of discord bots.
• Terminal Bot List - An unofficial list of discord bots.

Tutorials

• The Complete Beginner’s Guide To Chatbots.
• The Secret To Making Your Own Facebook Messenger Bot In Less Than 15 Minutes.
• How to create a chatbot without coding a single line
• How To Build Bots for Messenger.
• Creating A Chat Bot.
• A Beginner’s Guide To Your First Bot.
• Pair Programming a Facebook Messenger Bot.
• Facebook Chatbot Tutorial
• Design Framework For Chatbots
• UX of Chatbots

Communities

• Bots - Facebook group.
• UX for Bots - Facebook group.
• Chat Bot Magazine - Medium.
• HH Bots - Facebook group.
• Messenger Platform Developer Community - Official Facebook group.
• Chatbots and Conversational Agents - Quora Topic
• Bot Developer Hangouts - Community on Slack for all bot platforms.
• BotList Chat - Telegram group.
• Bot Development - Telegram group.

Conferences

• ChatbotConf
• Talkabot

Developers

• BotMakers - The best place to hire chatbot developers
• Botgig - Hire a top chatbot dev from a vetted talent pool.

Testing

• ChatbotTest - Chatbottest is an open source guide that helps you identify chatbot's design issues under 7 different categories.
• BotTesting - Test your bot! Send your email and bot link to us, we’ll examine your bot’s performance and usability

License

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