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Table of Contents

Platform Documentation

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

Slack

Telegram

Discord

Node.js
C
C
Python
Java
Rust
Lua
Go

Kik

Bot Stores

Tutorials

Communities

Conferences

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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