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Curated list of resources for everything to do with different kinds of AI powered bots.
Table of Contents
- Platform Documentation
- Tools For Building Bots
- Tools For Bot Analytics
- Tools For Bot Conversation Mockups
- Libraries
- Bot Stores
- Tutorials
- Communities
- Developers
Platform Documentation
- Facebook messenger
- Slack
- Discord
- Telegram
- Kik
- Zulip
- HipChat
- Skype
- Cisco Spark
- Microsoft Bot Framework
- VKontakte
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.
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.
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.
- Bottender - Make Bots in Your Way, Fast and Flexibly.
Facebook Messenger
Slack
- Node.js (Official)
- Node.js
- Python (Official)
- Relax (scalable RTM library to scale to 1000's of teams)
Telegram
Discord
Node.js
C#
Python
Java
Rust
Lua
Go
Kik
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 official 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.
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.
- A beginner’s guide to your first bot
- Facebook Chatbot Tutorial
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.