Thanks for hunting us, Ben!
We've been hard at work since last being on Product Hunt :)
The first version of Dexter had a broader scope, but after seeing that our users were most excited about the bot building aspect, we decided to narrow our focus. Still, our early experience helping users and brands build their first chatbots helped shape our core product philosophy and outlook on the space. We believe that it's important for Dexter to remain accessible to everyone (including those without previous coding experience) while maintaining extensibility for developers. And more importantly, we feel that even though these conversations might be automated, that humans should still play a part both by being able to monitor and refine the bot's language or even intervening when appropriate.
We're very excited for the @producthunt community to give us a shot. Looking forward to hearing feedback!
@danielilkovich@producthunt congrats on the launch, Daniel and everyone at Dexter! so freakin' exciting!
As some may know, I've been using Dexter to build two fun bots (Botline Bling https://www.producthunt.com/post... and Boy Bye Bot http://boybyebot.com). For what it's worth, I know ZERO coding and only know how to write silly jokes, with my day job being a creative director for branded content at The Onion. (Even my skills for the latter are questionable. But that's another story.)
Point is: If I'm able to make a bot, anyone can. Seriously.
Congrats again on the launch, looking forward to making more stuff with y'all.
I've tried a bunch of the "Bot builders" and I can confidently say Dexter is both the simplest to use AND the most powerful one out there.
I stumbled across Dexter in January and got access to their beta. Since then I've built multiple bots for a variety of purposes.
Here's an example of one I built in a couple hours last week that already has 360 subscribers: https://len.suppo.co
I can't recommend this product enough! Congrats to the Dexter team.
Really nice implementation, the experience reminds me of using Ghost for the first time after migrating from Wordpress.
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I love the concept.
Rushed over to the docs and looked for examples. 4 / 4 of the walkthroughs http://docs.rundexter.com/walkth... are just placeholder links. I wish makers would stop doing that in 2003 :/
@pax_ Hey Alex - Good point. Lots of competing priorities as we got close to our launch, but we promise we'll add more materials there soon! In the meantime, if you click "New Bot" there are 4 templates that are pre-filled to get you going. We're pretty proud of the rest of our docs too ;)
@pax_ Hi Alex, walkthroughs have finally made their way out of 2003! My personal favorite is the Quiz Bot one here http://docs.rundexter.com/walkth... Hope you enjoy and let us know if there's any particular walkthrough you'd like to see next!
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@angelwxyz perfect, added to my Pocket, looks exciting (almost literally :), very much looking forward to testing it – examples are best for somewhat-technical-but-not-ninja ppl like me that need a bit of extra confidence push to start fiddling around with new environments :)
@tgerin It does work in some other languages. We've done a few builds in Spanish for example that have worked quite well. My español on the other hand could use some work. If you're looking for something in particular, drop me a line - brendan@rundexter.com
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Thanks @bilko for your response, I'd be interested to try if it can works in french as well !
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