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I'm sorry but Kik didn't predict the Rise of Chat Bots. Kik basically looked at WeChat and said we should do that. Same as Facebook and the others. WeChat showe

I'm sorry but Kik didn't predict the Rise of Chat Bots. Kik basically looked at WeChat and said we should do that. Same as Facebook and the others. WeChat showed that micro-apps inside a chat interface worked for their target market. The key is to understand the needs of WeChat's target market and figure out the overlap with the US market then figure out the unique needs of the US market.

j45 10y ago
All of them probably looked at IRC bots.
- dcwca 10y ago
  As a lesson in how not to do it.
  - ryanlol 10y ago
    How else would you do it?
  - j45 10y ago
    Everything is crap 5-10 years after it's written. The leap forward wasn't the tcl code quality, but an order of magnitude forward in what bots allowed to be possible in providing security to irc channels along with a host of other solutions simply was unparalleled.