{"id":44,"date":"2021-05-17T10:42:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kloudimp.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2023-03-26T18:00:38","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T10:00:38","slug":"chatbot-building-platforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kloudimp.com\/chatbot-building-platforms\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Chatbot Building Platforms To Build Chatbots"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
This is part of a series of \u201cBot Making Tools Assessment\u201d findings from the \u2018How To Build A Bot With The Right Kind Of Tools<\/a>\u2018 article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Checkout the rest of the series by following these links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Currently there are many online tools that allows the developer to build chatbots very quickly (some claims that \u201cyou will be able to do it within 5 minutes\u201d). For example, just for the Facebook Messenger alone, there are 69 (and growing) Messenger Platform Development Providers<\/a> .<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do note that the main aim of Chatbot Building Platforms are to abstract away the technical parts of building a bot, much like how CMS (Content Management Systems) like WordPress & Kentico<\/a> does to abstract away the technical bits of HTML and CSS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I picked ManyChat, <\/a>Chatfuel<\/a> & MobileMonkey<\/a> (and tried it in that specific order as well) and it certainly was the best way to learn some of the basics of bot development, in terms of understanding the type of bot components available. Chatbot Building Platforms usually play to the strength of certain parts of bot building \/ feature set.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Casual users will appreciate that they have \u201cpre-built\u201d templates get started quickly. When moving on to something a little more advanced, Chatfuel has \u201cextensible\u201d components \/ functionalities for integrations with third party systems. For example, to send data to another system, the developer must have some knowledge of using JSON APIs of that other system. This will be quite a common scenario as many small businesses use a multitude of online services (e.g. online storage, email marketing, information APIs) instead of having everything \u201cunder one roof\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As for Artificial Intelligence, it is usually an option to be \u201cturned on\u201d explicitly. In other platforms, it could be part of the features in the bot itself with no further setups from the end user. Taking Chatfuel as an example, they have both their own AI and supports integration with third party AI \u2013 DialogFlow (formerly known as API.ai).<\/p>\n\n\n\n Another good thing about these platforms is that they have quite an active community base. Both casual users and developers can easily find solutions on how to configure the bot for certain scenarios and get inspired by other creative ways to build bots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note that these platforms are hosted services. They do provide both \u201cFree\u201d and \u201cPaid\u201d tiers, removing certain limits such as watermarking & number of bots the user can build & host. It is also entirely up to the platform provider to ensure the quality of service and support. Data is not as easily accessible, especially in cases for businesses in certain countries \/ domain that have issues with data being hosted \u201con a remote server that they do not own\u201d or security reasons of \u201cdata not being in isolated data store\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suggested Use Cases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Source:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exploring the idea of building an Automated Reply chatbot for your Facebook Pages? Read about the available options today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_genesis_block_theme_hide_title":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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