Hi Dan, great list of things that should be bots here. (also, I'm a fan of your post about your experience in wechat while in guangzhou) Funny that you made th

Hi Dan, great list of things that should be bots here. (also, I'm a fan of your post about your experience in wechat while in guangzhou) Funny that you made the comparison of bots to websites, I wrote a post making the same comparison (in other aspects). Won't link here (don't want to self-promo), you can check my post history on HN if interested. Anyway, I wanted to point out that while you're absolutely correct that there are tons of channels of Discovery outside of Messenger, I've found that by far the most effective method for accelerated growth of a bot was being featured on the "Bots" section on the Messenger app. In my experience launching several side projects bots, the only scenario where I've gained any meaningful amount of users at all is when I was listed there for a short time in a region. This leads me to think that a lot of users browse around the Messenger app itself, looking for things to do, or bots to message. Yes, in most of your use cases on this list, the bots tie to some outside service (physical or digital), and it wouldn't make sense to feature those bots on Messenger itself. But there are also bots that are primarily useful as a bot only, not tied to other services. (Icon8 is a great example, it's a very cool filter app that works by itself as a bot. Which is why it seems to be featured forever :) But that's exactly what I mean.) In one of my previous write-ups I pointed out that, while unlikely for FB to implement, if there is some sort of newsfeed-like page on the Messenger mobile app where users can explore what other bots that their friends are using, it could expose bots to users a lot more quickly. Not saying exactly that would be a good design (it probably is a poorly designed feature if done that way), but something along those lines is what we would think is something that the platform itself could do to help.