Awesome bots
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Table of Contents
- Voice bots
- Newsletters
- Podcasts and episodes
- Popular examples of bots
- Directories (lists)
- Messaging platforms
- Tools
- Sources (news, articles, blogs, resources)
- Job boards
- NLP (tools, engines, SDKs, frameworks)
- Bot building platforms
- Personal assistants
- Payment & subscription services
- ChatOps
- Bot Development
- Agencies
- Influencers/People
- Events
- Fundraising (accelerators, camps, capitals, funds)
- Books
- Communities/chats
- Video Tutorials
Contents
Voice bots
- Storyline - Create voice apps without coding via visual interface and ready-to-use templates.
- BotTalk - Create voice apps for Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant with simple Yaml Markup.
Newsletters
- How Bot Industry Grow By Up To 100% Month Over Month - Five epic actionable bot tricks delivered to your email once a week
- Bot Weekly - Bot Weekly is a weekly round up of the most interesting chatbot and AI news
- Chat Bots Weekly - 4100+ people from companies like Slack, Facebook, PH, Kik and Sequoia are here. Covering the industry around Slack, SMS, Kik and Facebook Messenger chatbots. Also called conversational commerce or #ConvComm
- Botlist Weekly - Weekly newsletter from BotList
- The Messenger - A personally curated selection- featuring mobile messengers, chatbots and industry experts
- Bot! zine - An online newsletter for #botmakers and bot enthusiasts. Bots, chat bots, art bots, NLP, chat interfaces, machine learning, AI, latest tutorials and resources, interviews and upcoming events
- Topbots - Make sure you're in-the-know about important news, breakthroughs, and applications of artificial intelligence and bots. TOPBOTS is your ultimate guide to exponential technologies
- Chatbots weekly digest - The Web's best digest on Chatbots & AI, by https://www.botfuel.io
- BotBeat - VentureBeat Newsletters. Connecting the dots: AI, messaging and bots
- Hearing Voices - This week's news about voice computing apps, delivered directly to your inbox
- Alexa News - Provide your email address to stay up to date with the latest Amazon Alexa news and IoT and voice industry trends
- Messaging Weekly - The week's best messaging and #convcomm news, opinions and apps delivered every Friday
- Technically Sentient - Bringing you the latest in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Neurotechnology
- Locutius - Locutius starts your week with with everything you need to know about the design and business of conversational systems, from voice to chatbots, plus the machine intelligence that powers it all
- UX for Bots - A monthly recap of the best content shared on the UX for Bots Facebook group in your inbox
- Chatbots weekly digest - A weekly digest of chatbot and AI related news
Podcasts and episodes
- O'Reilly Bots Podcast - The O'Reilly Bots Podcast covers advances in conversational user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and messaging that are revolutionizing the way we interact with software
- BotCast from oratio / Swell - Weekly insights from the bots and messaging space with Pete & David
- Bots Podcast with Jon Bruner
- VZV Podcast - Chatbots and AI podcast, hosted by Christie Pitts of the Verizon Ventures Development Team
- a16z Podcast: Bots and Beyond - Connie Chan, Benedict Evans, and Chris Messina discuss the topic of bots, mobile, and beyond: the (evolution?) from web to apps to messaging to bots; chat as an interface; “conversational commerce”; and so on
- Software Engineering Daily - Weekly podcasts about chatbots and messaging, including Slack Bots Podcast with Amir Shevat
- LPX Episode 7: Are chatbots the new apps? - A podcast about future of chatbots with Robert Stephens, a co-founder of a new chatbot service called Assist.
- What's Tech - Casey Newton from The Verge on the interesting applications of bots
Popular examples of bots
- Poncho - Poncho delivers customizable weather forecasts daily via email and text message, helping you plan everything from your commute to your outfit. It's free!
- Swelly - Bot to provide the fastest way of asking questions and getting opinions by friends!
- Instalocate - Instalocate is a real-time flight tracking bot. You can get flight status, delay alerts, arrival, departure, and gate information
- Kayak - The bot lets users find flights and hotels using conversational language rather than the old-school method of plugging in dates and sifting through hundreds of results
- TheScore - theScore brings you real-time sports scores and news from the teams you care about, with deep coverage of MLB, NBA, NFL, NHL and major soccer leagues!
- Foxsy - Foxsy is your personal matchmaking assistant to find a beautiful and meaningful connection with the right person. And, Foxsy is the first and the best matchmaking Chatbot in the world
- PayPal - With PayPal bot you can pay your friends and teammates on Slack and on your preferred device
- Skyscanner - Skyscanner bot for Skype is a passenger flight search engine that allows users to browse for flights via price and location
- Visabot - Visabot for Facebook Messenger is an immigration attorney 2.0 Inspired by U.S. top immigration lawyers to deliver the results no lawyer can match
- Hipmunk - Hipmunk chatbot for Facebook Messenger is a super-powered Hipmunk who digs through tons of travel options to help you find the best flights and hotels
- Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot - Mica, the Hipster Cat Bot is a venue recommendation bot that helps you discover the best places worldwide - on FB Messenger, Skype, Kik, Telegram
- Nikabot - A Slack bot that keeps track of what your team is doing so you don't have to
Directories (lists)
- ChatBottle - Chatbots Search Engine
- There is a bot for that - Search engine for bots
- BotList - App Store for bots
- Microsoft Bot Directory - Bot Directory from Microsoft
- Slack bot directory
- Intento - Search platform for FB Messenger/Telegram/Viber
- Telegram Bots Store
- Discord Bots List
- Botpages - Botpages help make it easier for you to discover and find bots
- ProductHunt bot directory
- TeamChat botstore
- Qwazou Bot - A Messenger Bot that helps you discover new bots on Messenger.
Messaging platforms
- Facebook Messenger
- Skype
- Telegram
- Kik
- LINE
- VKontakte
- iMessage
- Viber
- HipChat
- Skype for Business
- Cisco Spark
- Slack
- Smooch
- Discord
- Amazon Alexa
- Google Home/Google Assistant
- Web
- SMS
Tools
Analytics
- Botimize - Optimize your bot for happier customers, scientifically. Track, test, and action in real time. It's as easy as 1 - 2 - 3
- BotMetrics - Bot & Conversation Analytics
- Dashbot - Actionable Bot Analytics. Increase user engagement, acquisition, and monetization through actionable bot analytics. Now supporting Alexa and Google Home
- BotAnalytics - Make decisions with historical & real time conversation data. We combine real time conversations with historical ones to help answer the toughest questions about engaged, churnable and retained conversations
- Facebook Bot Analytics - Official Analytics tool for Facebook Messenger Bots
- Image-Charts - Display high-resolution, beautiful crisp charts to your customers through your chat bot
- ChatUrl - Easily add rich, data-driven charts to your web & mobile apps, chat bots, and emails. We’ve thought of everything to help you transform your data into chart images with less effort
- Botlytics - Analytics for your bot. Track the messages your bot sends and the conversations your bot has
- UxProbe - Use UXprobe to measure the most important thing about a chatbot – how often users are successful. See how users complete or fail tasks (intents). Drill into sessions with failed tasks to improve the logic of your chatbot
- DialogAnalytics - Conversational Analytics. Insights into your conversational applications
- VoiceLabs - Voice analytics for Alexa and Google Assistant, free and live in 10 minutes
- Opearlo Analytics - Track the usage of your Alexa Voice Apps
- Witlingo - Witlingo is a full stack Software as a Service product that enables you to continually learn about your conversations. We provide out-of-the-box Analytics that measure how your conversation is performing for your customers
- ChatMetrics - Push-notifications platform for bots
- Wordhop - Wordhop enables humans and AI to work together to enhance customer service, drive eCommerce transactions, and keep customers engaged in conversation
- Dimon - Dimon enables bot and chatbot owners to identify and fix issues in their bot conversations
- ChatbotProxy - Extensible proxy between your chatbot and providers. It helps debug incoming/outgoing requests using
curl
. And it keeps per page metrics for Facebook Messenger bot apps. - Botmeter - Follow performance, optimize conversations and understand your customers' behaviors through our analytics application.
- Chatbase - Analyse and optimize bot conversations. Visualize interaction flow, explore chat conversations, analyze retention and track convertions.
Marketing
- bCRM - CRM for Marketers and Customer Support Staff in the chatbot world
- Hunch - Hunch is your powerful but super simple analytics assistant that constantly monitors your marketing metrics. From answering AARRR funnel questions to automating your weekly and monthly reporting.
- Boim - Bo.im is gateway to all your channels. It can link to all of your bots, contact info, locations, websites, and much more, while behaving according to where it was clicked on.
- Messengerify - Messengerify will connect the website with your Facebook Page and provide a better chat experience for your customers. Even if visitor leaves your website the conversation can continue via Messenger.
- WhatsHelp - Messenger Marketing Platform for marketers and entrepreneurs. Grow your subscriber list, create smart bots, and broadcast messages in just a few clicks.
Monetization
- RadBots - Monetization Tools For Bots
- waves.ai - Learn, grow & let your goals become reality
- cashbot.ai - Monetization platform for chat & voice experiences that leverages the rich context of conversation to make relevant, timely product recommendations which lead directly