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Show HN: Build a discord/Slack bot to answer questions with your docs and GPT4

144 points by rubenfiszel 3y ago

It works on top of the open-source workflow engine windmill [1] that you can easily self-host on a tiny server or a large k8s cluster. You will also need pgvector (here hosted on supabase) and of course a GPT4 api key. It showcases an approval step so that you only provide answers you are confident giving to your users, which feels less robotic. All the building blocks are scripts that you can reuse outside of windmill and you could build this in any other workflow engines (although less conveniently). We use it for our own needs on discord [2] and thoughts this was a common need for any product having community support on slack or discord. [1]: https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill https://github.com/windmill-labs/windmill [2]: https://discord.com/invite/V7PM2YHsPB https://discord.com/invite/V7PM2YHsPB

quickthrower2 3y ago
“Commoditize Your Complement” as they say
AnhTho_FR 3y ago
Do you offer a cloud version as well? Congrats, looks like a lot of open source communities might need this!
- rubenfiszel 3y ago
  We do and if you do not want to bother self-hosting, our free-tier is sufficient for around 200 answers (1000 executions): https://www.windmill.dev/pricing https://www.windmill.dev/pricing
sisve 3y ago
I followed this tutorial 2 weekend ago, switched out github repo with zendesk. was super helpfull to actually see how easy it was to build it. And how good the result was.
hamhamed 3y ago
that tool should be a standalone service, something our team would pay dearly for. It goes through all slack public channel's history, creates embeddings and also goes into github, confluence, etc. And then people can just talk to the bot to get their questions answered if it can answer as good as chatgpt4
- rubenfiszel 3y ago
  One could build that SaaS on top of windmill :) We are starting a series cheekily called "Replace a SaaS" with this one as the first one. There is a trade-off between build and buy and we aim to reduce the chiasm so you don't end up with a billion generic SaaS subscriptions and with a bit of code build truly tailored solutions.
- searchableguy 3y ago
  I built standalone service for discord a while ago. https://tally.so/r/3xjvKE https://tally.so/r/3xjvKE if you want to see the demo. Would you be interested in trying out?
  - TheHumanist 3y ago
    Really interesting. What's the charge for trying it out
    - searchableguy 3y ago
      No charges. I will pass on the API cost if you have a high scale but I imagine not.
- mikigraf 3y ago
  I’m currently working on that :)
- sixhobbits 3y ago
  There are a bunch I have seen, eg https://scriv.ai/ https://scriv.ai/
- 3y ago
Estyn 3y ago
Pretty neat we did almost the same thing with SharePoint and DevOps as the source and MS Teams as the output.
meghan_rain 3y ago
Content marketing for Windmill. Just keep that motivation in mind when reading this blog post.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  “You don’t need a SaaS!” + “Using Windmill” + “Windmill Pricing:” Ok! To be fair you can self host their thing.
vorpalhex 3y ago
If you are getting a lot of questions that are solved by reading the docs, you need to fix your docs. Maybe using a conversational agent is an appropriate tool for that, but please don't let it remove the human element of support. We've all been on the wrong side of automated "help". Don't contribute to the problem.
- slig 3y ago
  The author is on his Discord server basically 24/7, he's definitely not contributing to this problem.
eob 3y ago
Is there any place where folks building AI dev tools at the [no code, low code, prosumer-code] intersection hang out? I was just watching some of the Windmill videos (they're cool!) and am fascinated by the interplay between visual code blocks and code. Selfishly, I wish there was a water cooler where those of us wrestling with these dev ux interfaces could trade tricks & hazards.
- 30minAdayHN 3y ago
  We are building Promptly(https://trypromptly.com https://trypromptly.com), a no-code platform to build AI apps. You can build Slack/Discord bots connected to any LLM provider. You can check out the docs here: https://docs.trypromptly.com/apps/slack_app.html https://docs.trypromptly.com/apps/slack_app.html
- jakeduth 3y ago
  I'm in a discord that is mostly people like this. Look at the guys around @nocodecarson on Twitter or ping him for the Discord link and tell him Jake Duth sent you. (to be clear I'm not one of the node code guys, generally prefer full-code after running with Bubble, etc. for a few months)
mdev23 3y ago
ha, Im working on something similar https://recurai.com/discord https://recurai.com/discord Only you can also embed the discord bot on any web app via a javascript widget.
korabs 3y ago
Good job in making it open source! We're building this as a hosted plug & play solution for Discord & Telegram integration, feel free to check it out: https://awesomeqa.xyz https://awesomeqa.xyz

144 points by rubenfiszel 3y ago

quickthrower2 3y ago

“Commoditize Your Complement” as they say

AnhTho_FR 3y ago

Do you offer a cloud version as well? Congrats, looks like a lot of open source communities might need this!

rubenfiszel 3y ago
We do and if you do not want to bother self-hosting, our free-tier is sufficient for around 200 answers (1000 executions): https://www.windmill.dev/pricing https://www.windmill.dev/pricing

sisve 3y ago

I followed this tutorial 2 weekend ago, switched out github repo with zendesk. was super helpfull to actually see how easy it was to build it. And how good the result was.

hamhamed 3y ago

that tool should be a standalone service, something our team would pay dearly for. It goes through all slack public channel's history, creates embeddings and also goes into github, confluence, etc. And then people can just talk to the bot to get their questions answered if it can answer as good as chatgpt4

rubenfiszel 3y ago
One could build that SaaS on top of windmill :) We are starting a series cheekily called "Replace a SaaS" with this one as the first one. There is a trade-off between build and buy and we aim to reduce the chiasm so you don't end up with a billion generic SaaS subscriptions and with a bit of code build truly tailored solutions.
searchableguy 3y ago
I built standalone service for discord a while ago. https://tally.so/r/3xjvKE https://tally.so/r/3xjvKE if you want to see the demo. Would you be interested in trying out?
- TheHumanist 3y ago
  Really interesting. What's the charge for trying it out
  - searchableguy 3y ago
    No charges. I will pass on the API cost if you have a high scale but I imagine not.
mikigraf 3y ago
I’m currently working on that :)
sixhobbits 3y ago
There are a bunch I have seen, eg https://scriv.ai/ https://scriv.ai/
3y ago

Estyn 3y ago

Pretty neat we did almost the same thing with SharePoint and DevOps as the source and MS Teams as the output.

meghan_rain 3y ago

Content marketing for Windmill. Just keep that motivation in mind when reading this blog post.

quickthrower2 3y ago
“You don’t need a SaaS!” + “Using Windmill” + “Windmill Pricing:” Ok! To be fair you can self host their thing.

vorpalhex 3y ago

If you are getting a lot of questions that are solved by reading the docs, you need to fix your docs. Maybe using a conversational agent is an appropriate tool for that, but please don't let it remove the human element of support. We've all been on the wrong side of automated "help". Don't contribute to the problem.

slig 3y ago
The author is on his Discord server basically 24/7, he's definitely not contributing to this problem.

eob 3y ago

Is there any place where folks building AI dev tools at the [no code, low code, prosumer-code] intersection hang out? I was just watching some of the Windmill videos (they're cool!) and am fascinated by the interplay between visual code blocks and code. Selfishly, I wish there was a water cooler where those of us wrestling with these dev ux interfaces could trade tricks & hazards.

30minAdayHN 3y ago
We are building Promptly(https://trypromptly.com https://trypromptly.com), a no-code platform to build AI apps. You can build Slack/Discord bots connected to any LLM provider. You can check out the docs here: https://docs.trypromptly.com/apps/slack_app.html https://docs.trypromptly.com/apps/slack_app.html
jakeduth 3y ago
I'm in a discord that is mostly people like this. Look at the guys around @nocodecarson on Twitter or ping him for the Discord link and tell him Jake Duth sent you. (to be clear I'm not one of the node code guys, generally prefer full-code after running with Bubble, etc. for a few months)

mdev23 3y ago

ha, Im working on something similar https://recurai.com/discord https://recurai.com/discord Only you can also embed the discord bot on any web app via a javascript widget.

korabs 3y ago

Good job in making it open source! We're building this as a hosted plug & play solution for Discord & Telegram integration, feel free to check it out: https://awesomeqa.xyz https://awesomeqa.xyz