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Botpress: an open-source bot creation tool written in JavaScript

143 points by slvnperron 10y ago

lowglow 10y ago
Botpress is great! RadBots (https://radbots.com/ https://radbots.com/) built a monetization module for use in Botpress and found the experience to be great. Total support, engaged devs, and great mission. https://www.npmjs.com/package/botpress-monetize https://www.npmjs.com/package/botpress-monetize
- gerrydude8 10y ago
  So you get money when someone clicks on an ad? I'm reading their site and can't really make out the payout? How much per ad click?
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  - lsseckman 10y ago
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dang 10y ago
We changed the URL from https://github.com/botpress https://github.com/botpress to what seems to be the main project on that list.
- slvnperron 10y ago
  hey thanks dang!
  - carussell 10y ago
    This is the inevitable comment when you're asked about the terminal emulator from your screencast. (And better to do it here by piggy backing off this off-topic thread than for it to pollute the main discussion.) So what's behind those effects? Thanks. https://botpress.io/video/video_1.mp4 https://botpress.io/video/video_1.mp4
    - slvnperron 10y ago
      Hehe this question was indeed inevitable. I'm using Hyper (https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/) with the "hyperpower" plugin. Enjoy!
jastanton 10y ago
This looks great! How are the integrations with slack?
- danyfs 10y ago
  Yes! Funny you ask because we push slack integration this morning!
- slvnperron 10y ago
  Our Slack integrations make it very very easy to create a Slack bot and all the tasks around a Slack bot (i.e. broadcasts, subscriptions, scheduling tasks, human take over). We have very nice features like automatic users profile fetching (and caching) and all the Web APIs actions are implemented. The only drawback is that we have no deep integration for Slack Grid (yet)
systematical 10y ago
Would love to see a sample of botpress actually in action.
- danyfs 10y ago
  For now, we are not aware of any major brand that runs on Botpress, but we have some great partnerships to announce soon. We have built 1 month ago a community and open-source bot, but we didn't have the time to maintain it. You can try it: https://www.messenger.com/t/boostfuel https://www.messenger.com/t/boostfuel
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wale 10y ago
Planning on building a messenger bot for fitness. Botpress /Botkit. oh seems there's already some module/integration for Botkit in botpress-botkit
- wale 10y ago
  botpress-messenger + botpress-rivescript = sugar
  - jonbaer 10y ago
    You should probably look @ the one they have already built as an example ... https://github.com/botpress/Boost https://github.com/botpress/Boost
tuyguntn 10y ago
How does this differ from so many frameworks? If you still use platform dependent APIs and do not hide abstraction over them. I would not call it wordpress for bots, because Chatfuel is more close to being a wordpress for bots (with closed source) `bp.slack.sendText` vs `bp.messenger.sendTemplate`
- bpicolo 10y ago
  I would suspect the issue is the different supported feature set. While you could send text everywhere, messenger supports webviews, slack has buttons of their own, etc. You could definitely abstract parts of it (both slack and messenger have buttons), but not the total.
- slvnperron 10y ago
  This question is very relevant and I think we need to work more on how to express what I am going to say (any idea form you guys would be extremely helpful).. Botpress differs from other frameworks (I consider as frameworks only the code-based solutions like Botkit, MS Bot Framework and Hubot) in that we don't only provide the connectors to the chat platforms (which is the minimum to having a chatbot), but also provides all the other things you will eventually need when writing your bots: the ability for users to subscribe to topics, broadcasting abilities, tasks scheduling, natural language processing, human-in-the-loop, analytics, etc... All of which is available on a web interface. Botpress differs from other platforms* (platforms are hosted services like Chatfuel, Flowxo, Motion.AI, etc) in that it is developer-oriented (i.e. it's not a tool designed for total newbies and non-coders). The logic of your bot will inevitably lead to code, but in exchange you get total control and flexibility. You own your data, you have no dependency on 3rd party services, you need a new feature you just code it. Finally, the major difference is that Botpress is not hosted, it is an open-source software you install and host yourself. The reasoning behind Botpress is: make it super easy for developers to create a bot (through a powerful SDK and a highly modular ecosystem), easy for bot owners to administrate (powerful web interface).

143 points by slvnperron 10y ago

Botpress is great! RadBots (https://radbots.com/ https://radbots.com/) built a monetization module for use in Botpress and found the experience to be great. Total support, engaged devs, and great mission. https://www.npmjs.com/package/botpress-monetize https://www.npmjs.com/package/botpress-monetize

gerrydude8 10y ago
So you get money when someone clicks on an ad? I'm reading their site and can't really make out the payout? How much per ad click?
- deleted 10y ago
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- lsseckman 10y ago
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dang 10y ago

We changed the URL from https://github.com/botpress https://github.com/botpress to what seems to be the main project on that list.

slvnperron 10y ago
hey thanks dang!
- carussell 10y ago
  This is the inevitable comment when you're asked about the terminal emulator from your screencast. (And better to do it here by piggy backing off this off-topic thread than for it to pollute the main discussion.) So what's behind those effects? Thanks. https://botpress.io/video/video_1.mp4 https://botpress.io/video/video_1.mp4
  - slvnperron 10y ago
    Hehe this question was indeed inevitable. I'm using Hyper (https://hyper.is/ https://hyper.is/) with the "hyperpower" plugin. Enjoy!

jastanton 10y ago

This looks great! How are the integrations with slack?

danyfs 10y ago
Yes! Funny you ask because we push slack integration this morning!
slvnperron 10y ago
Our Slack integrations make it very very easy to create a Slack bot and all the tasks around a Slack bot (i.e. broadcasts, subscriptions, scheduling tasks, human take over). We have very nice features like automatic users profile fetching (and caching) and all the Web APIs actions are implemented. The only drawback is that we have no deep integration for Slack Grid (yet)

systematical 10y ago

Would love to see a sample of botpress actually in action.

danyfs 10y ago
For now, we are not aware of any major brand that runs on Botpress, but we have some great partnerships to announce soon. We have built 1 month ago a community and open-source bot, but we didn't have the time to maintain it. You can try it: https://www.messenger.com/t/boostfuel https://www.messenger.com/t/boostfuel

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wale 10y ago

Planning on building a messenger bot for fitness. Botpress /Botkit. oh seems there's already some module/integration for Botkit in botpress-botkit

wale 10y ago
botpress-messenger + botpress-rivescript = sugar
- jonbaer 10y ago
  You should probably look @ the one they have already built as an example ... https://github.com/botpress/Boost https://github.com/botpress/Boost

tuyguntn 10y ago

How does this differ from so many frameworks? If you still use platform dependent APIs and do not hide abstraction over them. I would not call it wordpress for bots, because Chatfuel is more close to being a wordpress for bots (with closed source) `bp.slack.sendText` vs `bp.messenger.sendTemplate`

bpicolo 10y ago
I would suspect the issue is the different supported feature set. While you could send text everywhere, messenger supports webviews, slack has buttons of their own, etc. You could definitely abstract parts of it (both slack and messenger have buttons), but not the total.
slvnperron 10y ago
This question is very relevant and I think we need to work more on how to express what I am going to say (any idea form you guys would be extremely helpful).. Botpress differs from other frameworks (I consider as frameworks only the code-based solutions like Botkit, MS Bot Framework and Hubot) in that we don't only provide the connectors to the chat platforms (which is the minimum to having a chatbot), but also provides all the other things you will eventually need when writing your bots: the ability for users to subscribe to topics, broadcasting abilities, tasks scheduling, natural language processing, human-in-the-loop, analytics, etc... All of which is available on a web interface. Botpress differs from other platforms* (platforms are hosted services like Chatfuel, Flowxo, Motion.AI, etc) in that it is developer-oriented (i.e. it's not a tool designed for total newbies and non-coders). The logic of your bot will inevitably lead to code, but in exchange you get total control and flexibility. You own your data, you have no dependency on 3rd party services, you need a new feature you just code it. Finally, the major difference is that Botpress is not hosted, it is an open-source software you install and host yourself. The reasoning behind Botpress is: make it super easy for developers to create a bot (through a powerful SDK and a highly modular ecosystem), easy for bot owners to administrate (powerful web interface).